linux and speakup installation

[Scott Berry]

You go Steve.  I think there does need to be some work with software
synths.  I myself think Festival isn't all to bad if Gnopernicus would
quit crashing with it.  I have the U.S. voices installed and too me that
sounds better than Eloquence.  Eloquence to me had that little high
pitch twang which kind of drove me nuts.On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Steve Holmes
wrote:

> Well, I for one, love hardware speech for previous reasons mentioned.
> The only good thing I can say for software speech is portability.  A
> laptop would be much easier to use and carry around if you don't have
> to lug a synth box around and hook up.  Up to the present, you cannot
> use software speech to review boot message if your kernel panics or
> when doing a brand new install from off-the-shelf distro CD's.  It was
> mentioned recently that serial ports are going away except for high
> end modles and I think that is also criminal if not abominal!  I think
> the only USB synth out there is the tripple talk and I don't think the
> specs are publicly available yet for development of a synth driver for
> Speakup.  God Damn those non disclosure agreements anyhow!
>
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