Hello, I think people have covered most of the things I would say, but there are a few things left (I think). Most people seem to say about using speech-dispatcher for other synths and this is generally the only way other synths can be used, however if you choose the viavoice synth (either as voxin or ttsynth) then there is a speakup connector for it available at the ttsynth website (the connector is freely available and is under an open source license). This connector I believe uses ALSA for audio output. If you wish to stick with an entirely free system then I feel espeak and espeakup are the best out there. You may wish to have a look at all the voices available (eg. you may find the female versions better, or you may find one of the other accents better, or may be even one of the other varients). As for installing extra software on GRML, just use the standard debian packages, GRML is meant to follow debian's standards and actually uses debian's repositories for some of its packages. The system I am using to write this email is running GRML and I installed gnome onto it from debian's repositories. As suggested, you may wish to change it to use testing or you may want to install plain debian by using grml-debootstrap. Michael Whapples On -10/01/37 20:59, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Hi Joe! Welcome back. We've missed you around here. > > You can use speech-dispatcher with quite a few different synths on > grml or debian and ubuntu. Some of them are commercial so they cost a > small amount depending on the synth. Some of them sound better than > espeak also. However, none of the speech-dispatcher synths will give > you the responsiveness of espeakup with espeak. So you'll need to > make a choice between quality of speech and response. I myself use > espeakup/espeak exclusively anymore and have become pretty comfortible > with many of the espeak voices. espeak has quite a few different > accents you can play with to get a better idea of it's capability so > you may find one you like or can tolerate. > > I'm really sorry to hear about the fire but am very glad to hear about > the new family. Good luck with your set-up and again welcome back. > Kirk > -- > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 >
