-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The other advantage, I find, at least with my dectalk, is it can speak fast. I listen to speech pretty quickly, and espeak just can't get there. For example, http://tspivey.freeshell.org/speech.ogg is usually the rate I listen at when using windows. On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 06:50:16PM -0600, Glenn at home wrote: > The main reason is if the sound card doesn't work, we have the reliable > synth to be working. > I don't know if it can be compared to windows, but in windows, if we have to > boot with no drivers, some internal speech cards would work with no drivers > installed. > And I do have a link to a 300+ dollar motherboard with an ISA slot. > I think there are some less expensive ones out there, but they were limited > to a slow bus speed, and a 2GB processor at best. > Glenn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Duddington" <jsd at clara.co.uk> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:41 PM > Subject: What's the advantage of a hardware synth? > > > In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611081636470.1525 at darkstar.example.net>, > randy turner <rturner222 at sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > do they still build any computers with the older isa slots? > > also has any company built any pci synths that will work in linux? > > what are the choices that are left for linux?? > > I'm not visually impaired and I've not used a hardware synth myself, > but I'm curious. What is the advantage of a hardware synth over a > software synth? > > I can think of a few possibilities, but I'm curious which are true and > are important for those who use or prefer hardware synths: > > 1. It doesn't affect the computer's sound system, which can therefore > play other sounds unaffected by the TTS. This could probably be > achieved for a software synth by using two sound cards. > > 2. System startup messages can be spoken before the point when the > sound system and synth software is initialized and working. This would > be overcome by the proposed "Spoken Boot" feature. > > 3. Problems with installing and setting up a software synth. > > 4. Prefer the sound of the hardware synth voice to those currently > available with software synths. > > 5. Limitations of computer processor power or memory, although I doubt > this is an issue now. > > 6. The hardware synth offers some feature not available in the > software synths. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFUnyZTsjaYASMWKQRAq12AJsEU/+ChDJ2Tdkn3psMj1sF+ccF9QCfTbiA D+XqbkAtNlVnSlsCGnRLZR8= =TDqZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
