Master Troll speaks on Software Synth.

[Gregory Nowak]

Look at my original post on software speech to find out why I just can't rush out and get a doubletalk pc for this system. Also, I wasn't asking Kirk to recode his whole system (yes, he has done an impressive job so far for which I'm sure all of us are very greateful for). I was merely making a suggestion that
might not require Kirk to recode speakup from the beginning.
Greg

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:13:28AM -0700, Ken Perry wrote:
> 
> Well I am what I consider to be a master troll.  A troll is a person who
> watches a email group or news group but never really posts unless goated
> into it.
> 
> Well my time has come once again to speak up.  No pun intended.  I am
> recieving my BS in Computer Software Engineering and I far surpass my
> sighted class mates in ability so hopefully once August 3 comes and goes I
> will be able to contribute more to this project.  Right now I am fully in
> Gear to finish school however so I am not able to help like I would like.
> 
> My idea on software speech is to do exactly what one has already hinted
> wowards and that is well create a software synth  that is free currently
> the easy and compact ones to use are VIA voice and even Dec talk software
> speech for Windows.  There is also festival but it is a big pig and is not
> pretty to use.  What I would like to do  is make a morecompact via voice
> or dectalk style speech that only has one voice like double talk.
> something like the old SAM for C-64 but that will start working as soon as
> all initialazation is completed true we will miss boot up messages but in
> Linux that is not a crime in fact most of the sighted people I know don't
> sit there and stair at them because you can usually get into linux and
> check the messages from previous boots unlike windows 98.  As long as the
> speech came up when the user prompt came up that would be perfect.
> 
> I have not really been able to dive into Speakup code and really get my
> feet wet but I think that What has been begun can be well um worked to
> make this possible.  I want to say though what has been done so far is
> very impressive and  I don't think any one should expect Kurt to  recode
> his whole system in fact I think I would rather a system that finally
> works for lets just say double talk pc than a system that never gets to
> the point where we can use it.  Its not that hard to rus  out and buy a
> double talk pc and that would finally be a perfect solution to get us all
> out of windows and into an operating system we can all well re-engineer
> the way we want.
> 
> So stop begging for Software synth and work on getting the system to work
> as is first.  ASAP and WINDOW-eyes and JFW didn't just come up working
> supporting every means of software and hardware synth.  I used a computer
> for 8 years before that was even possible.  I am sure we can live with a
> couple more years of needing hardware to support our system.
> 
> 
> Ken Perry /System Admin www.valhalla.com
> 
> 
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