In reguard to hardware synths being better then software that depends on what you use. On my Win box eloquence works faster then a bns. However if you're talking about a software decktalk, forget it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 8:19 PM Subject: Re: linux and speakup installation > I've also observed that hardware synths are faster and better quality > then software synths. On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:10:37PM -0500, Janina > Sajka wrote: > > A speech synthesizer is the device that creates the synthetic speech you > > listen to. So, with your JAWS on Windows you're probably using the > > Eloquence software speech synthesizer. This means that the device is > > rendered fully in software. > > > > But, before we had software speech synthesizers, we had hardware ones. > > That's what you still have to use with Speakup--and that isn't a bad > > thing, but I'm not going to explain that just now. Suffice it to say > > that this hardware device is attached to your computer via a serial > > port, or on an internal card slot. Unfortunately, the kinds of internal > > slots that Speakup can use are now almost impossible to find on new > > computers. > > > > Site Resources writes: > > > From: "Site Resources" <siteresources at floodcity.net> > > > > > > hi, > > > > > > > > > I am very new to all of this; and I have not yet installed these things. I've been reading some of the documentation on speakup though, and on the installation, and I have a few questions, actually only one concerning speakup. > > > > > > What does it mean by a speech synthesizer? I'm not quite sure what it means there; sorry if I sound kind of silly with that. > > > > > > Actually currently, I'm running windows, with jaws. > > > > > > > > > Brandon > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka > > Email: janina at rednote.net > > Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175 > > > > Director, Technology Research and Development > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > http://www.afb.org > > > > Chair, Accessibility Work Group > > Free Standards Group > > http://a11y.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid > back. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
