Linux with Software Synth on Dell Enspiron2600 Laptop

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi Martin,
The last oralux is not that old, should most likely still do what you want 
it to.
In terms of free software speech and limmited resources, nothing beats 
espeak.
Regards, Willem


On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Martin McCormick wrote:

> 	I seem to be between a rock and a hard place and I
> haven't even started yet. The Dell laptop is about 5 years old
> and has a 1-GHZ processor but only 256 megs of RAM. There is no
> serial port on the system but there is a USB port which I plan
> to use with a serial converter assuming I get Debian installed.
> 
> 	I was thinking of oralux until I got on that web site
> and read that it has been dead for several years. That's a real
> shame because I had no serious trouble getting oralux to come up
> talking on a ten-year-old gateway with 128 megs of RAM and a
> 400-MHZ processor. If only there was something free and newer
> with that same functionality so as to see if it is viable. The
> problem with something that is at its end of life is that one is stuck with
> whatever final form it took. If there is a bug or lack of
> support for this or that hardware, too bad.
> 
> 	Is there any sort of live CD that doesn't also bring up 
> a GUI or have some other huge resource hog? gnome and orca are
> great but I have been advised that the ubunto CD probably won't
> be a good idea in this case. Since there is no native serial
> port, I don't have my favorite installation method on this
> system. Usually, I use another working system and kermit to use
> the Debian serial console which is no problem at all.
> 
> 	For what I mostly do, a command line with software
> speech similar to oralux but supporting more recent systems was
> what I was shooting for. This system doesn't appear to quite
> have the memory to handle orca, software speech and gnome.
> 
> 	Festival will probably work fine based upon what I have
> heard it do on slower systems, but it's that need for a talking
> installation procedure I am concerned about.
> 
> Martin McCormick
> 
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