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 1EM5Oj-0000D7-00 for ; Sun, 02 Oct 2005 11:05:05 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av2.karneval.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B23E813E3A for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:04:58 +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 20559-04 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:04:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.karneval.cz (mx1.karneval.cz [81.27.192.53]) by av2.karneval.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CF3114089 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:04:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from brailcom.org (unknown [10.5.148.46]) by mail.karneval.cz (Postfix) with SMTP id 3AE8E19ECF2 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:04:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 8456 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Oct 2005 17:04:56 +0200 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." From: Jan Buchal Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 16:54:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20051002131603.GC27840@rednote.net> (Janina Sajka's message of "Sun, 2 Oct 2005 09:16:03 -0400") Message-ID: <86k6gwhsvl.fsf@brailcom.org> References: <000c01c5c67e$838900a0$af6d10ad@antik> <867jcx5h2q.fsf@brailcom.org> <20051002131603.GC27840@rednote.net> 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: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 15:05:05 -0000 >>>>> "JS" == Janina Sajka writes: JS> 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. >> JS> You're forgetting, Jan, that he doesn't have Linux and Speakup JS> installed yet. Speech Dispatcher isn't going to help him with JS> that part. No, I do not forgeten. For Linux installation exist more ways. You can use some live speech Linux distribution for example. JS> I have felt it important to hammer this fact home again because JS> this point should not be obfiscated, especially given that JS> people are writing in what is obviously not their native JS> language. JS> 1.) You cannot, cannot, cannot, cannot install Linux using JS> software speech, not Speech Dispatcher's software speech, nor JS> anyone else's software speech. Period. End of story. No, you are wrong. 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. JS> 3.) There may, or may not be a problem using software speech and JS> other audio applications (like mplayer). This depends on your JS> sound card and other factors like the version of ALSA you're JS> using. Advice is to use ALSA 1.0.9 or greater. This proble is already solved. I any case a new sound card is much cheaper then a new HW synthesiser. -- Jan Buchal Tel: (00420) 224921679 Mob: (00420) 608023021