Which synth for redhat 9?
Sina Bahram
sbahram at nc.rr.com
Mon Aug 25 13:27:56 EDT 2003
Thanks so much for the information. I shall research those websites and
then probably have more questions for you *smile*
Thanks again,
Sina
-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10:10 AM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Which synth for redhat 9?
Hi, Sina:
None of the software speech synths will help you use Speakup at this
time. For Speakup, you must have a hardware device. Unless you find one
somewhere on the used market, expect to pay approximately $300 U.S. plus
shipping and any special power supply you might need for an external
Doubletalk LT (or an internal Doubletalk if you happen to have an
available ISA slot). To get a Doubletalk go to:
http://www.rcsys.com
If you install Red Hat 9 (Severn) as the Speakup Modified HOWTO
recommends, Festival will be installed for you and it will be
usable to the extent that Festival is ever usable. The HOWTO,
recently revised, is at:
http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/redhat/HOWTO_INSTALL.html
May I point out that you have two additional, no cost,
software speech options, namely flite (through the
eflite flite server) and freetts. Both
are available on Source Forge, respectively:
http://eflite.sf.net
http://freetts.sf.net
Sina Bahram writes:
> From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram at nc.rr.com>
>
> Hello, I was wondering if anyone on this list could assist me in
> picking the right synth for redhat 9. I have downloaded and am
> planning on installing redhat 9, and need a software solution for now,
> until I can get some problems fixed in securing a dectalk express. I
> read the post on Aug. 23 and it was recommended to get YASR with flite
> and eflite, if I am not mistaken. I would appreciate to know which
> synth can support 16k voices and exactly what packages I need to get,
> as I am new to linux and the reason for me installing redhat 9 is so
> that I can familiarize myself with the operating system. I have heard
> of festival and was wondering if I need to look into that, or is
> eflite a substitute for festival?
>
> Thanks again,
> Sina
>
>
>
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American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
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