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Jan Buchal writes:
> >>>>> "JS" == Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> writes:
> 
>     JS> 2.) Once you have Linux with Speakup installed, you can use
>     JS> hardware or software speech. You can change synths every hour if
>     JS> you want.
> Yes, maybe is important that HW synthesiser cost about 1 thousand
> dollars.
You can spend that much if you want. But, you can also get hardware
speech synths for much much less. The one I am using right now cost me
$150 USSd , and it was purchased new. Other synths can be had for around
$300 USD new.

Or you can look on places like Ebay. A few weeks ago someone on this
list was giving away hardware speech synthesizers.

This is not as burdensome as you claim.