Flite is better than Festival IMHO. The problem with FreeTTS is that you need Java, which Gentoo doesn't include . Don't know if FreeTTS can be rrecompiled with gcj - I doubt it. S Aqib -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of nick G Sent: 15 March 2004 23:12 To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: linux and accessibility applications I'd like to see FreeTTS in place of festival. Festival is bad, for, you! Thanks, Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deedra Waters" <dmwaters@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 5:15 PM Subject: linux and accessibility applications > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi guys, > > I'm looking for some feedback, and basically what I want to know is this. > What accessibility applications are out there for linux besides > gnopernicus, speakup, emacspeak, brltty and the speechd thing? > > The other thing I should ask I think, is, what accessibility software > would people like to see in a distro? (meaning software that's already > written) > > I'm project lead for the gentoo accessibility project > 'http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/accessibility', and what I'd like > to do is get a list together of packages we don't have for accessibility, > and work on getting those available for our users. Currently we have most > of the gnome-accessibility packages, speakup in some of the kernel > sources, brltty, (which is currently in testing) festival, and speechd. > > Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. > > Deedra > > > - -- > Gentoo Linux: dmwaters at gentoo.org > http://www.gentoo.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAVisVU5AGPOTGNc8RAlzdAJ9HQPE5ymuY3/D00wHg1gq1LaQU0wCfZVSU > nTtv6T/c2SwQKc7FcAcaSD0= > =RPM8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > 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
