Yes, but it's considered experimental and still has a slight British accent. I think a lot of the problem, at least for me, is what I'm used to. I did use Espeak for a long time yesterday from the Ubuntu live CD trying to get my system to boot and I got to where I didn't mind too much. I still would want an alternative for reading books and long passages of text, but I could get used to it for daily tasks. Actually, I was very impressed with how well it and Orca worked in the Gnome Terminal. I think I got my boot problems fixed, and I had no problem mounting my LVM volumes and fixing grub. I actually liked it better than grml, which locked up twice. Also, I'm finding that the sound card makes more difference than I thought. At first, I thought it was just the speakers, but the machine I was working on had a new onboard sound chipset that I hadn't used before. It was actually not that bad. Finally, by default, Speakup and Orca don't use the US English voice, so it takes some adjustment to get them to use it. I'm still looking for suggestions for a decent sounding voice for reading books, but for now I can live with either using Espeak or my hardware synths with the Emacspeak speech servers. Willem van der Walt wrote: > Espeak does also have an us english voice. >
