Orca and Gnome are both great products and I would encourage their use but, if your budget allows, you should probably purchase a DoubleTalk LT which is an external hardware synthesizer. The desktop environment still has its quirks and if it unexpectedly dies you will be dumped into a shell, so best to have hardware speech if at all possible. Insure that you have a serial port, though. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaijin" <gaijin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 5:54 AM Subject: Hello... > Hello all, > > Just joined the list and thought I's say "hello" to everyone. > Really nice to find a place like this. I'm a rabid Linux fanatic who > went blind from diabetic retinopathy in August of '02, and I've been > pretty much offline ever since. Finally broke down and upgraded my > system to support WinXP and quickly heard about SpeakUp for Linux. I'm > in the process of looking for a supported speech synth for SpeakUp, so > I'm still stuck in Windows on a 30 minute Win-Eyes time limit. I hope > to soon get Slackware up and running, and soon be able to contribute to > the SpeakUp effort right along-side everyone. I'm presently playing > around with a copy of Oralux and learning the features. Just need that > speech synthesizer, and I should be off and running. Thank you for all > your efforts. It is well appreciated. > > Best regards, > Michael "Foreign White Devil" Ferranti > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > __________ NOD32 2329 (20070614) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > >
