speech output

[Willem van der Walt]

I am not sure if speakup is included in the latest Ubuntu.


On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Valiant (on laptop) wrote:

> blinks? 7.4?
> Last I know is 7.10, where'd I miss?
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willem van der Walt" <wvdwalt at csir.co.za>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 2:19 AM
> Subject: Re: speech output
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > Unless you plan on doing a lot of new kernel builds and stuff, you can do
> > well with software speech.
> > Espeak is a software synthesizer which is now a days very popular.  It is
> > miles better than flite and supported by all the speech applications like
> > speakup, emacspeak, orca etc.
> > There is a sapi version for windows so you can give it a spin there.
> > See http://espeak.sf.net/test/latest.html for the latest version.
> > You can also these days buy a version of IBM Viavoice now knows as
> > ttsynth, from Janina and elsewhere.
> > As far as Linux distributions go, the easiest ones to get going with
> > speech seem to be Ubuntu 7.4/feisti and grml, but you can get software
> > speech going with most linuxes if you put in enough effort.
> > HTH, Willem
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Neil Foster wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > > I am returning to linux havign lost my sight adn need to get speech
> > > output.
> > > The best way seems to be via speakup with a hardware speech synth. The
> > > problems I have are.
> > >
> > > 1) Can you get external hardware speech synths that wil work vai usb porst
> > > 2) does speakup support usb ports?
> > >
> > > I need it to work via usb ports as my laptops only have usb porst. I have
> > > heard that you can get serial port/usb converts usb ports are obviusly
> > > fast
> > > enough and capable enough if hardware manufacturers watn to provide the
> > > kit
> > > and feel there is a market for it but will this appear as a /dev/tty port
> > > without special drivers?
> > >
> > > Not bothered about the speech outptu quality that much . I've used flite
> > > on
> > > win xp and assuem its the same on linux beign the same source coes and
> > > although not good its understandalbe which is the point after all.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Neil Foster
> > > but am not hat impresed with what the likes of flite output,
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