linux and accessibility applications

[nick G]

Free TTS is more responsive.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan Mann" <rmann at rmisp.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: linux and accessibility applications


> 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
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> > > - --
> > > Gentoo Linux: dmwaters at gentoo.org
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