Converting text to mp3

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Fair point. 

As regards the keyboard, I agree with the main keyboard philosophy, and
in fact speakup does allow you to customize it to use the main keyboard instead of the
keypad. However, it took me a while to customize it to my liking and 
required quite a bit of study and generating of personal keymaps, so 
might not be of any interest to those who aren't comfortable making 
some low level modifications.

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 08:16:08PM -0500, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Which may illustrate my point.
> I can use those without changing what I have now.
> Speaking personally if Linux does not provide equal access to both hardware
> and  software speech, in both its command line and graphical platforms, I am
> unsure  just where the advantage is for me personally.
> One thing I personally disliked with speakup, at least the times I tried it
> years back was the need to remove my hands from the keyboard for many
> things.
> That may not hold true all the way around, but I am a solid typist and do
> not like having to remove may hands, say use the number pad, if I want as I
> work content.
> That is me though, which is one magical thing about personal computers.
> everyone brings their desires and usage goals to their machines.
> Which to my mind again personally means Linux should, if it actually can, be
> flexible enough for all choices to work in it command line and graphical.
> Karen
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> 
> > I don't use Firefox. I use a text based browser, either lynx, w3m, or links (the chain) depending.
> > 
> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 07:48:42PM -0500, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > > Rudy,
> > > As an example, may I ask what edition  of  Firefox you are running with that
> > > dectalk Express?
> > > Karen
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Karen,
> > > > I use Linux speakup with a Dectalk express speech synthesizer. And I believe speakup also handles the
> > > > slot card version of dectalk though you'll need a desktop PC that supports it, so the software is there.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Rudy
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 05:22:35PM -0500, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > > > > Kyle,
> > > > > i do not consider my hardware decktalk provided via my reading edge to be an
> > > > > example of text to speech.
> > > > > By definition, and there are many, the term, which refers to taking
> > > > > information in text format  and  rendering it aloud does not, speaking
> > > > > personally,  equal pronunciation ease.
> > > > > In fact one theory about this has to do with preserving the audiobook
> > > > > market.
> > > > > granted, as  was pointed out in a thread some time ago, I am not likely to
> > > > > learn about Linux screen readers, no driver exists for my hardware speech,
> > > > > and software synthesizer sources  currently do a number on my brain.
> > > > > Karen
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > That being said, the audiophile in me cannot resist pointing out that
> > > > > > pronunciation abilities of tts are of far less quality than those
> > > > > > provided by many actual screen readers, at least the ones I have
> > > > > > used...which???? does not include any for Linux.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > That being said, the technofile in me cannot resist pointing out the
> > > > > > fact that every screen reader for every OS uses nothing but TTS
> > > > > > technology to read the screen. Well, I guess BeMyEyes doesn't, but it's
> > > > > > not exactly a screen reader, unless you need the volunteer to read a
> > > > > > screen for you.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > ~ Kyle
> > > > > > 
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