linux and speakup installation

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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