From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cpe-065-190-203-058.nc.res.rr.com ([65.190.203.58] helo=taylor.homelinux.net ident=Debian-exim) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Gk52X-0005Ha-00 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:37:53 -0500 Received: from lorenzo by taylor.homelinux.net with local (Exim 4.63.20061010) (envelope-from ) id 1Gk52e-0002li-N4 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:38:07 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:38:00 -0500 From: Lorenzo Taylor To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20061114203800.GA1766@taylor.homelinux.net> References: <8764di804p.fsf@mail.ru> <87ejs5ak7r.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ejs5ak7r.fsf@gmail.com> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: lorenzo@taylor.homelinux.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on taylor.homelinux.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 Subject: Re: orca/lsr comparison wanted X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:42:28 +0200) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on taylor.homelinux.net) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:37:53 -0000 Actually, as far as speech synthesis software, both Orca and LSR are capable of using Festival via Gnome-speech, but you may be interested to know that the latest LSR, at least the one from CVS, supports using speech-dispatcher out of the box, whereas Orca needs some tweaking and an extra file added after installation in order to use speech-dispatcher directly. With speech-dispatcher it is possible to use eSpeak as your speech synthesizer with little tweaking, only some minor configuration changes in speechd.conf. HTH, Lorenzo -- I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse. --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment)