Hi, satyam: You will need a hardware speech synthesizer. I recommend the Doubletalk internal ISA card (about $270 U.S. plus shipping) if your computer has an ISA slot available. Otherwise, I recommend the Litetalk external at about $300 U.S. plus shipping which interfaces over a serial port. Why do you think you need a new hard drive? You may not need that, but you definitely need a hardware speech synthesizer. On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, satyam wrote: > I am a visually disabled user mailing from india. > All these days I used microsoft windows 98 and Jaws. > Now I am planning to use Linux as it is becomming more accesible for blind.I have amd-k6 processor with 96 mb ram and creative 16 bit sound card. > If I purchase new hard disk can I Instal new Redhat Linux with the help of Speakup without any external synthesyser? > Please respond. > Bye. > > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
