linux and accessibility applications

[Ryan Mann]

What is the advantage of FreeTTS over Festival?  FreeTTS is written in
Java so I would think it would be more of a memory hogg than Festival.


On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, nick G wrote:

> I'd like to see FreeTTS in place of festival.  Festival is bad, for, you!
> Thanks,
> Nick
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> From: "Deedra Waters" <dmwaters at gentoo.org>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 5:15 PM
> Subject: linux and accessibility applications
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> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I'm looking for some feedback, and basically what I want to know is this.
> > What accessibility applications are out there for linux besides
> > gnopernicus, speakup,  emacspeak, brltty and the speechd thing?
> >
> > The other thing I should ask I think, is, what accessibility software
> > would people like to see in a distro? (meaning software that's already
> > written)
> >
> > I'm project lead for the gentoo accessibility project
> > 'http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/accessibility', and what I'd like
> > to do is get a list together of packages we don't have for accessibility,
> > and work on getting those available for our users. Currently we have most
> > of the gnome-accessibility packages, speakup in some of the kernel
> > sources, brltty, (which is currently in testing) festival, and speechd.
> >
> > Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Deedra
> >
> >
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