Espeak (http://espeak.sourceforge.net) is a little program that will fit on a floppy disk about 3 times, it's a speech synthesizer, doesn't take much to compile either. Just install portaudio, and then edit the make file, putting -lpthread at the end of the libs= line, then type make. Copy the directory espeak-data to /usr/share and you should be good to go. HTH, Chris Norman <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com --> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Berry" <sberry@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 2:09 AM Subject: Re: General questions from someone who's never used Speakup... > Chris, > > What is espeek I have never heard of it and how does one get it to work? > > Scott > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Norman" <cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 6:02 PM > Subject: Re: General questions from someone who's never used Speakup... > > >> I'd start out with GRML, >> It speaks out of the box, with a boot line like: >> grml swspeak lang=uk keyboard=uk >> >> You can install that. When you've gotten used to it, I'd recommend >> something >> like Fedora, it can be installed with braille or remotely, and you can >> get >> it speaking with ESpeak quite easily. >> >> HTH, >> >> Chris Norman >> <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com --> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "James Homuth" <james at the-jdh.com> >> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 11:52 PM >> Subject: General questions from someone who's never used Speakup... >> >> >>>I do have linux experience, though not running it off my own machine, >>> since until recently I'd been unaware of anything remotely decent so >>> far as text-to-speech capabilities for it. What I'd like to know, >>> however, is what kind of feedback/configurability is offered with the >>> current version of Speakup? I should probably point out that, coming >>> from Windows, I'm probably going to end up comparing this with >>> whatever expectations I have after using JAWS and/or Window Eyes. >>> I've been tossing around the idea of finding a spare machine just to >>> fiddle around with linux and check out Speakup, at the very least, >>> but I like to know what I'm getting into before I go and jump in with >>> both feet. If anyone knows where I can get my hands on something like >>> a demo of the program in action, or can maybe tell me what their >>> experience with Speakup has been like, that'd be awesome. Email me on >>> or off list, whichever. >>> >>> James >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
