interesting experiment.

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Cecil:

It's easy enough to install flite and yasr. They're applications
that run in console mode, not patches to the kernel like Speakup
is. You can get everything you need at:

	http://eflite.sf.net

The speech isn't the greatest, at least not in this, its first
incarnation.

My strong advice to you, however, would be to find about $300
U.S. for an internal Doubletalk, if you have an ISA slot free, or
the external Litetalk if you don't. Unless you hate Doubletalk
speech, the internal makes Speakup fly. It's very snappy to run.

On Sat, 18 May 2002, Cecil H. Whitley wrote:

> Hi Janina,
> Will yasr run on top of a speakup modified kernel?  How difficult is the
> install?  Any real bears I should stay away from?  To use speakup here at
> home I have to borrow the dectalk express from work (which just ain't worth
> it except on weekends).  I have d/l'ed yasr, viavoice outloud and associated
> files (from redhat) but not emacspeak yet.  I'm waiting until I can convince
> Marian (my wife) to drop the $'s on an sb live.  Currently this machine is
> running an aureal vortex based sound card (no drivers that I could get to
> work).
> Regards,
> Cecil
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 6:52 PM
> Subject: Re: interesting experiment.
> 
> 
> > Well, I won't say emacspeak supports software speech, even though
> > it does, because Raman would shoot me for calling emacspeak a
> > screen reader.
> >
> > But, yasr runs with flite. I use it when I can't use speakup.
> > It's not bad.
> *snip*
> 
> 
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