Hi, Sina: None of the software speech synths will help you use Speakup at this time. For Speakup, you must have a hardware device. Unless you find one somewhere on the used market, expect to pay approximately $300 U.S. plus shipping and any special power supply you might need for an external Doubletalk LT (or an internal Doubletalk if you happen to have an available ISA slot). To get a Doubletalk go to: http://www.rcsys.com If you install Red Hat 9 (Severn) as the Speakup Modified HOWTO recommends, Festival will be installed for you and it will be usable to the extent that Festival is ever usable. The HOWTO, recently revised, is at: http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/redhat/HOWTO_INSTALL.html May I point out that you have two additional, no cost, software speech options, namely flite (through the eflite flite server) and freetts. Both are available on Source Forge, respectively: http://eflite.sf.net http://freetts.sf.net Sina Bahram writes: > From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram at nc.rr.com> > > Hello, I was wondering if anyone on this list could assist me in picking > the right synth for redhat 9. I have downloaded and am planning on > installing redhat 9, and need a software solution for now, until I can > get some problems fixed in securing a dectalk express. I read the post > on Aug. 23 and it was recommended to get YASR with flite and eflite, if > I am not mistaken. I would appreciate to know which synth can support > 16k voices and exactly what packages I need to get, as I am new to linux > and the reason for me installing redhat 9 is so that I can familiarize > myself with the operating system. I have heard of festival and was > wondering if I need to look into that, or is eflite a substitute for > festival? > > Thanks again, > Sina > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- 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
