Hello Brandon, Welcome to the list. While many others will answer I am sure, in general you have far more flex-ability and far more options for voice with linux and speakup than you do with windows. the synthesizer refers to hardware options, either cards or external devices that can serve as the voice for you instead of just using the software card, which in my opinion sounds poor. An example of such a device is the DecTalk express. Hope this helps, Karen On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Site Resources wrote: > 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 >
