Linux with Software Synth on Dell Enspiron2600 Laptop

[Kevin Doucet]

Hi,

What is your favorite installation method and which synth do you use?

I am searching for options also.

Thanks.




Kevin Doucet
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-----Original Message-----
From: blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Martin McCormick
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 7:34 AM
To: Linux for blind general discussion
Subject: Linux with Software Synth on Dell Enspiron2600 Laptop

	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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