I did see the viavoice.tgz on baum's site and I thought about downloading it but haven't done it yet. On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Tom and Esther Ward wrote: > That is very true. It also doesn't help that free open source software > speech systems such as festival wasn't specifically designed for screen > readers to begin with.For example festival to date doesn't have callback > support which makes festival and it's clones somewhat sluggish compared to > comercial synths such as viavoice Outloud. > I think at some point down the road once gnome accessibility and KDE > accessibility is well on it's way Baum should probably design there own > software speech system that is more robust and more responcive that the > current line of open source synth systems. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shaun Oliver" <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 7:47 AM > Subject: Re: question about Gnopernicus > > > > no matter what platform you're running, > > software speech by it's very nature slows down the machine. > > I find when I'm broadcasting to a shoutcast server from my windows > > machine I end up with a stram that's sounding slightly distorted and > > with a wacky reverb that geoff shang can testify to as he's heard it > > happen. > > the problem I think is that software speech is almost as resource hungry > > as your audio apps out there and places unnecissary load on the system > > when you're doing intensive disk work e.g. laying down an audio track > > for your up coming masterpiece. > > the result of this unnecissary load is dropout in your recording or > > skipping. either one will result in your having to go back and redo the > > recording all over again. > > > > -- > > Shaun Oliver > > > > > > "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person." > > email: shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au > > WEB: http://blindman.homelinux.org/ > > IRC: irc.awesomechat.net:6666 > > IRCNICK: blindman > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Scott Berry Email: n7zib at bresnan.net
