linux and speakup installation

[Sean McMahon]

In reguard to hardware synths being better then software that depends on
what you use.  On my Win box eloquence works faster then a bns. However if
you're talking about a software decktalk, forget it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: linux and speakup installation


> I've also observed that hardware synths are faster and better quality
> then software synths. On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:10:37PM -0500, Janina
> Sajka wrote:
> > A speech synthesizer is the device that creates the synthetic speech you
> > listen to. So, with your JAWS on Windows you're probably using the
> > Eloquence software speech synthesizer. This means that the device is
> > rendered fully in software.
> >
> > But, before we had software speech synthesizers, we had hardware ones.
> > That's what you still have to use with Speakup--and that isn't a bad
> > thing, but I'm not going to explain that just now. Suffice it to say
> > that this hardware device is attached to your computer via a serial
> > port, or on an internal card slot. Unfortunately, the kinds of internal
> > slots that Speakup can use are now almost impossible to find on new
> > computers.
> >
> > Site Resources writes:
> > > From: "Site Resources" <siteresources at floodcity.net>
> > >
> > > hi,
> > >
> > >
> > >   I am very new to all of this; and I have not yet installed these
things. I've been reading some of the documentation on speakup though, and
on the installation, and I have a few questions, actually only one
concerning speakup.
> > >
> > > What does it mean by a speech synthesizer? I'm not quite sure what it
means there; sorry if I sound kind of silly with that.
> > >
> > > Actually currently, I'm running windows, with jaws.
> > >
> > >
> > > Brandon
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> > -- 
> >
> > Janina Sajka
> > Email: janina at rednote.net
> > Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175
> >
> > Director, Technology Research and Development
> > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> > http://www.afb.org
> >
> > Chair, Accessibility Work Group
> > Free Standards Group
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> >
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