From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from av2.karneval.cz ([81.27.192.108]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1ELkSh-0001AR-00 for ; Sat, 01 Oct 2005 12:43:47 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av2.karneval.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05A4140AF for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 18:43:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from av2.karneval.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (av2 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01289-02 for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 18:43:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.karneval.cz (mx1.karneval.cz [81.27.192.53]) by av2.karneval.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3148D14087 for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 18:43:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from brailcom.org (unknown [10.5.148.46]) by mail.karneval.cz (Postfix) with SMTP id 16C89195AB0 for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 18:43:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 17034 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Oct 2005 18:43:38 +0200 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." From: Jan Buchal Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 18:37:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: <000c01c5c67e$838900a0$af6d10ad@antik> (krekan@netkosice.sk's message of "Sat, 1 Oct 2005 13:51:52 +0200") Message-ID: <867jcx5h2q.fsf@brailcom.org> References: <000c01c5c67e$838900a0$af6d10ad@antik> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by karneval.cz 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: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 16:43:48 -0000 >>>>> "K" == Krekan writes: K> Hi everyone, I have read about possibility to have talking Linux K> and I am interested of what equipment should I have (syntesizer) K> to run it. I use talking software for Windows now (wintalker) and K> I 'd like to start with linux. I used linux from shell before but K> I want to have my own linux on my home system. Why do I have to K> have syntesizer when I have soundcard? On Windows when i use K> wintalker I don't have to use any syntesizer. Thanx for response Hello, 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. Best regards -- Jan Buchal Tel: (00420) 224921679 Mob: (00420) 608023021