Hi, Something else no one seems to reference in these discussions is sound quality speech wise. Believe the ability to understand your speech, a matter of personal taste, carries in price consideration in a major way. Likewise other uses you will want to make for your sound card. I prefer hardware speech to software, and personally would need two sound cards if I went with software speech. Just my take, Karen On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, acollins at icsmail.net wrote: > Hi. It would probably be easier and less expensive to go with a > software synth. The reason is that finding machines that have isa > serial ports these days is almost imposible, and speakup as of right now > does not work with either pci or usb serial ports. Espeak is a software > synth that comes with most Linux distroibutions, and is easy to use. > And of course, the price is right. I don't know if the Braille Note > emulates either the Keynote Gold, or some other supported synth. My > guess is probably not. If you can find a machine with standard isa > serial ports, then probably a litetalk, a Braille 'n Speak, or a Dectalk > Express would be good hardware choices. > > Gene Collins > >> Hi. >> >> >> >> I will hopefully be going to University and I have applied for the DSa. >> They are asking for information about Speakup and linux and I need to know >> which would be the best synthisiser to use and which suppliers in the UK >> sell. I have read something about the keynote gold, would a braillenote >> apex double up as a synth for Speakup? Any help on where I can get one of >> the supported synths would be great >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
