As far as I know, jokosher works with orca. audacity also, but I couldent get the F9 key to bring the menubar up for me, so I use alt+f, alt+e etc to get at the menus. As far as interpreters go, the tads2 and tads3 interpreter frob works fine if you are happy with playing games in the gnome terminal, z code frotz and nfrotz also works in the terminal. The audio games sound rts and audio quake also works on linux. Take care, Rynhardt * Chris Norman <chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com> [080225 13:26]: > On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 17:15 -0600, Kelly Sapergia wrote: > > Hi, > > My laptop is now set up to boot from CDs, so I can now try the > > live CD version of Ubuntu. I have a couple questions about the system: > > > > 1. Can you use any other soft synths with Orca? I know it comes with > > eSpeak, but I'm not too impressed with the voice. If not, that's OK, > > I'm sure I'll get used to it. > > Yes you can, festival, flite, IBMTTS, ... To be fair though, although > epseak doesn't sound particulally human, it is a lot clearer than most > comercial voices, such as hal (Dolphin), and you'll find if you listen > to it for a long period of time, it doesn't tend to get menotanous. I've > been using ESpeak for over 24 hours solid now today (and yesterday), and > it hasnI still find it easy to listen to, whereas hal would have begun > to grate on me by now. > > > > 2. As far as applications go, are there any good audio editors or > > players, and games (such as text adventure interpreters) that can be > > used with Ubuntu and Orca? > > Brilliant ones.. They just don't work with orca. By games interpreters, > I guess you mean the old z5 interpreters? I think if you go into google > and search for z5 interpreters or something, then you may find some > stuff. Or there are plenty of MUDs, you can even set up your own, if you > compile something like TBAMUD, or CIRCLE. > > HTH. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- I use grml (http://grml.org/)
