From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from concerto.rednote.net ([66.92.170.139]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1EM3hD-0007un-00 for ; Sun, 02 Oct 2005 09:16:03 -0400 Received: from concerto.rednote.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by concerto.rednote.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j92DG3kV016192 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 09:16:03 -0400 Received: (from janina@localhost) by concerto.rednote.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j92DG3Ka016191 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 09:16:03 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 09:16:03 -0400 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20051002131603.GC27840@rednote.net> References: <000c01c5c67e$838900a0$af6d10ad@antik> <867jcx5h2q.fsf@brailcom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <867jcx5h2q.fsf@brailcom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: Linux concerto.rednote.net 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4spksmp Organization: Capital Accessibility LLC (http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com) X-PGP-Key: http://www.CapitalAccessibility.com/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html Subject: Re: Required hardware forSpeakup X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 13:16:04 -0000 Jan Buchal writes: > > you can use the Festival speech synthesiser, that's a software synthesiser > for several languages, Czech for example. For this you need speech-up > and speech dispatcher which provide support for speakup. More > information you can find on http://www.freebsoft.org. > You're forgetting, Jan, that he doesn't have Linux and Speakup installed yet. Speech Dispatcher isn't going to help him with that part. I have felt it important to hammer this fact home again because this point should not be obfiscated, especially given that people are writing in what is obviously not their native language. 1.) You cannot, cannot, cannot, cannot install Linux using software speech, not Speech Dispatcher's software speech, nor anyone else's software speech. Period. End of story. 2.) Once you have Linux with Speakup installed, you can use hardware or software speech. You can change synths every hour if you want. 3.) There may, or may not be a problem using software speech and other audio applications (like mplayer). This depends on your sound card and other factors like the version of ALSA you're using. Advice is to use ALSA 1.0.9 or greater. Janina > Best regards > > > -- > > Jan Buchal > Tel: (00420) 224921679 > Mob: (00420) 608023021 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@freestandards.org http://a11y.org