linux and speakup installation

[Alex Snow]

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
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> -- 
> 	
> 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
> http://a11y.org
> 
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