>>>>> "JS" == Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> writes: JS> Jan Buchal writes: >> >> you can use the Festival speech synthesiser, that's a software >> synthesiser for several languages, Czech for example. For this >> you need speech-up and speech dispatcher which provide support >> for speakup. More information you can find on >> http://www.freebsoft.org. >> JS> You're forgetting, Jan, that he doesn't have Linux and Speakup JS> installed yet. Speech Dispatcher isn't going to help him with JS> that part. No, I do not forgeten. For Linux installation exist more ways. You can use some live speech Linux distribution for example. JS> I have felt it important to hammer this fact home again because JS> this point should not be obfiscated, especially given that JS> people are writing in what is obviously not their native JS> language. JS> 1.) You cannot, cannot, cannot, cannot install Linux using JS> software speech, not Speech Dispatcher's software speech, nor JS> anyone else's software speech. Period. End of story. No, you are wrong. JS> 2.) Once you have Linux with Speakup installed, you can use JS> hardware or software speech. You can change synths every hour if JS> you want. Yes, maybe is important that HW synthesiser cost about 1 thousand dollars. JS> 3.) There may, or may not be a problem using software speech and JS> other audio applications (like mplayer). This depends on your JS> sound card and other factors like the version of ALSA you're JS> using. Advice is to use ALSA 1.0.9 or greater. This proble is already solved. I any case a new sound card is much cheaper then a new HW synthesiser. -- Jan Buchal Tel: (00420) 224921679 Mob: (00420) 608023021