Emacspeak and Speak up for linux

Igor Gueths igueths at attbi.com
Sun Oct 13 18:37:18 EDT 2002


Hi peter. No Viavoice is a software synth. Emacspeak just has drivers that
will work with it.

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On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Peter Konka wrote:

> I believe that I have a working sound card under Redhat Linux 7.3.  I have
> a Dell Inspiron laptop which I installed linux as a second operating system
> so i can learn it.
>
> Will this voice program or whatever it's called work as a screen reader in
> linux under a soundcard?
>
> Please let me know.
>
> --- Peter Konka
>
>
>
> At 08:36 AM 10/13/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >Emacspeak is not a speech synthesizer. It is an audio desktop that runs
> >under Emacs, written in Lisp. The synthesizer driver portion is written in
> >Tcl. What you can do to get software speech is to obtain Ibm viavoice
> >Outloud. However, for this to work, you will need to have working sound
> >drivers.
> >
> >Microsoft dialogue
> >This company has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown. If
> >this problem persists, delete Winblows and install Linux. Close button
> >
> >On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Peter Konka wrote:
> >
> > > Hi listers,
> > >
> > >       Does anyone know how Emacspeak works for Linux?  I guess it is a
> > speech
> > > synthesizer that works through the computers sound card.  Does any one know
> > > how to install this or if it actually works as a linux screen reader?  I
> > > would like to use speech under linux but I don't have an external speech
> > > synthesizer.
> > >
> > > Please let me know
> > >
> > > Peter Konka
> > >
> > >
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