question about Gnopernicus

[Scott Berry]

I did see the viavoice.tgz on baum's site and I thought about
downloading it but haven't done it yet.
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Tom and Esther
Ward wrote:

> That is very true. It also doesn't help that free open source software
> speech systems such as festival wasn't specifically designed for screen
> readers to begin with.For example festival to date doesn't have callback
> support which makes festival and it's clones somewhat sluggish compared to
> comercial synths such as viavoice Outloud.
> I think at some point down the road once gnome accessibility and KDE
> accessibility is well on it's way Baum should probably design there own
> software speech system that is more robust and more responcive that the
> current line of open source synth systems.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shaun Oliver" <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 7:47 AM
> Subject: Re: question about Gnopernicus
>
>
> > no matter what platform you're running,
> > software speech by it's very nature slows down the machine.
> > I find when I'm broadcasting to a shoutcast server from my windows
> > machine I end up with a stram that's sounding slightly distorted and
> > with a wacky reverb that geoff shang can testify to as he's heard it
> > happen.
> > the problem I think is that software speech is almost as resource hungry
> > as your audio apps out there and places unnecissary load on the system
> > when you're doing intensive disk work e.g. laying down an audio track
> > for your up coming masterpiece.
> > the result of this unnecissary load is dropout in your recording or
> > skipping. either one will result in your having to go back and redo the
> > recording all over again.
> >
> > --
> > Shaun Oliver
> >
> >
> > "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person."
> > email: shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au
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Scott Berry
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