I have also tried speakup with the espeak software synthesizer, it appears to run fine, though I didn't try the mentioned copying to SD cards when running espeak. On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 09:20:20PM -0800, Tom Fowle wrote: > Hi Joseph, > I'm currently running Debian Wheezie 32 bit on an old 1.3GHZ asis P2C motherboard > with 750mB of ram. > Reason for keeping this old box is an ISA slot that runs my favorite synth, > Doubletalk. > Sometimes when copying very large talking books, like 350MB to an SD card, > the system "kills" some processes when out of memory. > Apparrently these processes restart when the copy is done. > > I can have two or three text consoles open at a time and there is little > extra delay. > > In other words, using command line only, it works fine. > > Running Gnome with Orca and espeak it becomes unacceptably slow. > > P.S. the motherboard won't take more ram or I'd add it. > > > tom Fowle > > On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 10:31:30PM -0500, Joseph Norton wrote: > > Hi listers: > > > > > > > > I had a gentleman write me off-list and he told me he has a 512-Mb system > > he'd like to install some kind of text-based distro on. > > > > > > > > I think he could still even install Debian without the X system, but, I'm > > not sure which release to point him to. > > > > > > > > Also, I bet Arch would be another good possibility. > > > > > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
