Hello, Thank you very much for the quick reply. The one area I'm slightly concerned about is how to get a boot script written for Espeak that Gentoo can use. Of course, it migght not need this, but... Any help here? I like my speech as soon as I can get it. Thanks, Zack. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 8:43 PM Subject: Re: Greetings > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I highly recommend eSpeak. It's really responsive and sounds better > than any other free speech synthesizer that is currently available if > you can understand a British accent. <smile> Get it from > http://espeak.sourceforge.net > or if you run Debian Unstable or Ubuntu with Universe activated you can > apt-get install it. If you can apt-get install it, you don't have to > really do much to set it up other than configuring speech-dispatcher to > use it. For the most part, that's just a matter of uncommenting > espeak-generic in the list of modules in > /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf and making it the default module. > Let me know if you need any more help. > > HTH, > Lorenzo > - -- > I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse. > - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFF47b7G9IpekrhBfIRAsA1AJ96aeEggojZBYIzSJ5hMNmluT/3pwCfcif8 > zqj9yrZL8nwDB2ajr4oR3dY= > =jid7 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >