Hello, External synths are quite pricy and should, in my opinion, be purchased if it is really going to be used productively, otherwise try to get a used one, which might be hard. Cody I have never had Gnome or orca crash on me. On Jun 14, 2007, at 4:55 PM, ace wrote: > 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 at clearwire.net> > 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 >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
