Free TTS is more responsive. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Mann" <rmann@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 8:04 PM Subject: Re: linux and accessibility applications > What is the advantage of FreeTTS over Festival? FreeTTS is written in > Java so I would think it would be more of a memory hogg than Festival. > > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, nick G wrote: > > > I'd like to see FreeTTS in place of festival. Festival is bad, for, you! > > Thanks, > > Nick > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Deedra Waters" <dmwaters at gentoo.org> > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
