Hi, Well even if speech-dispatcher is not a option eflite standing for emacs flite should be a option. It is a emacspeak server quite easy to install under debien work with emacspeak and yasr. Considering the fact that freedom box runs under gnome it should also be able to use gnome-speech so one of thoughs options should be possible. This would also give it access to the cepstral voices. They sound very nice by the way. Conversation about the ceo of the company are sort of beside the point here. I also must note that mat did not respond to any of my original questions when I posted them to the list a few days ago. Hth -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Michael Whapples Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 4:54 AM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: FreedomBox Hello, I can't make any comments on whether freedombox does track activities and add to the spam problems. I think it is a great shame that there is no plan to build support for festival or flite into the linux version of freedom box. I really dislike the dectalk voices and find those harder to understand than festival. Trying to include support for speech-dispatcher if possible might be a good solution (I don't know whether it would meet the technical requirements or not). The comment about using freedombox if it was free with festival as a synth, well I wouldn't use dectalk even if it was free, so the price wasn't coming into it there. You can see where the emphasis is in the company, there is not even a comment about linux in the information about freedombox on their website (not even a mention in listing operating systems, would it be too much to just have it say "works with windows 98 or later, or linux"). Due to that, if I had found it by searching the internet, I would not even have bothered looking further. From Michael Whapples "An optimist is someone who has never had much experience" _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
