software speech for speakup

[Geoff Shang]

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:

> 1: aAs far as I'm aware, software synthesys ties up a great deal of system
> resources including the sound card unless of course you run a sb-live.

Or some other poliphonic soundcard.  Or if you run ESD.

> 2: Remember that if you do go down the path of software synthesys, you
> won't have  speech right from the get go when you first turn your machine
> on.

AFAIK, no-one has that.  Speakup provides speech from when the kernel
loads.

Geoff.