Chris and all, I'll take a look at the various sources, but I suspect you're correct, I just can't get it out of my head that soft speech is a big load. Likely that gnome is slow cause of the load of all that graphics, not speech. I was looking at speakup and espeak just in case I upgraded to Jessie and the dtlk didn't fly. Thanks Tom On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 01:10:58AM -0700, Chris Brannon wrote: > Tom Fowle <wa6ivgtf@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Any thoughts on the feasibility of writing a dtlk driver for > > speechdispatcher? > > It shouldn't be too bad for someone with the will to do it. > People have been talking about writing hardware synth drivers for SD for > a long time, but no one has actually done it. > > Also, I'm sorry to say that hardware speech will not make gnome and orca > more performant on an older box. The software speech is not a problem. > I've used espeakup on a Dell Lattitude C610 with a 700 > MHz processor and 256 megabytes of RAM, and it performed beautifully. I > used the eflite speech server for emacspeak on a Toshiba Tecra laptop > with a 166 MHz CPU and 64 megabytes of RAM. Again, it performed like a > champ. In fact, this was my working environment for most of 2005. > Software speech just isn't that resource intensive. The only time it is > a problem is when the machine is under a painfully heavy load. > > > I thought I had a memory that early orca could drive dtlk, probably > > pre-speechdispatcher? > > Orca used to be able to use emacspeak speech servers. Hopefully it > still can. Anyway, there's an Emacspeak speech server for the > Doubletalk. It was part of the emacspeak-ss package on the old blinux > ftp site. That site seems to be dead now, but I think Debian is still > distributing emacspeak-ss. > > Good luck, > -- Chris > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
