Owen, You may not realize this, but your work may be a major turning point in the evolution of Linux for blind people. Thank you! On Sat, 3 May 2003, Owen Patrick Smith wrote: > Yes it is possible to run speakup with festival. I helped one of the two > projects that can do so. See the group website at > http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux for more info. The code is currently working > but still rather feature-poor, however we do plan on improving it over the > summer. The code will not currently speak totally from startup but with > some additions to the init scripts it can speak for a good portion of the > boot process. Hardware synths are still useful for many things but are no > longer strictly required for day-to-day usage. > > HtH > > Owen Smith > ender3rd at wpi.edu > > On Sat, 3 May 2003, Hugh Esco wrote: > > > Am I to understand from this thread that it is possible to run speakup with > > a software synthesizer like Festival or eflte? I built a Debian machine > > with emacspeak and eflite for a colleague of mine. I'd love to make it > > possible for him to hear the computer from startup. But I had understood > > that we'd need to find the funds for a hardware synthesizer before that > > would be possible. Was I mistaken? > > > > -- Hugh Esco > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- -- Charlie Crawford
