On 10/18/2012 12:07 PM, Hank & Patty wrote: > Hello, > Please don't hijack threads. > I am trying to find the best text to speech voice software that will > enable me as a totally blind computer user to be able to use the linux > operating system platform and use different linux based applications > with the linux operating system. Of the following 3 text to speech > voice softwares I just a day or 2 ago found out about that I guess > work pretty good with the linux platform to use different linux based > applications those being Emacspeak, speakup and orca, can someone > maybe please let me know which one of these 3 text to speech programs > they feel works best for a totally blind person to be able to use the > linux operating system to use different linux based applications? Any > help with this would be so very much appreciated. Much thanks in > advance for any help on this. > > It really depends what you want to do. Emacspeak works with emacs, > Speakup on the cli and Orca from within a gui. If you want to use > emacs full-time, I recommend emacspeak. If you're like me, you will > use emacs and the cli, in which case you'll need both emacspeak and > speakup. Orca works with gnome, so, if you want a GUI that's what > you'll use. > > All the best, > > Hank > > > From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at gregn.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:53 PM > Subject: Re: more hardware speech and a question > > >> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 03:14:50PM +0100, Keith Barrett wrote: >>> So, I have a 64 bytt machine and it seems for the moment, hardware >>> speech is not going to work so I am wondering if/how I can get >>> software speech working in the cli with speakup and with orca in the >>> gui? >> >> I have a 32-bit machine here that I've been upgrading since >> debian etch I believe. I have speakup working via espeakup, and orca >> working through whatever it uses (I seem to recall that's gnome speech >> services). I am able to use both, and they don't get in each other's >> way. Having said that, I don't know how/if your experience would vary >> from mine on a fresh system, but I suspect that it probably shouldn't. >> >>> >>> Also, I am hoping that software speech will be more reliable than it >>> seems to be in the gui, I cannot count the number of times when I >>> have depended on speakup and my old apollo after software speech in >>> the gui has stopped working. >>> >> >> Yes, software speech via espeakup in the text console is way more >> reliable for me than orca, and lots more responsive too. Maybe I >> should have said responsive to begin with, rather than reliable. I >> personally find that software speech via espeakup is as reliable as >> hardware speech most of the time, and in some situations depending on >> the hardware synthesizer used, even more reliable. Just my $0.01 >> worth, take it as you will. >> >> Greg >> >> >> -- >> web site: http://www.gregn.net >> gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc >> skype: gregn1 >> (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) >> >> -- >> Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -- Take care, Ty http://tds-solutions.net The aspen project: a barebones light-weight mud engine: http://code.google.com/p/aspenmud He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.
