software speech and speakup

[John Heim]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Dalton" <daniel.dalton47 at gmail.com>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: software speech and speakup


> On 13/11/2007 3:42 AM, John Heim wrote:
>> Start here:
>> http://www.freebsoft.org/doc/speechd-up/speechd-up_1.html
>
> I type:
> "festival"
> "SayText "Hello world""


I don't know anything about festival. I have never used  it. An alternate 
package named espeak is way more popular. All I know is that espeak is way, 
way more responsive than flite. But I can't recommend espeak over festival 
because I've never used festival.

You do have to get your kernel problem fixed first though.