A Linux Laptop including speech?

[Karen Lewellen]

I must have surgery and will not be able to sit up or raise my head for 
several weeks.  The idea is to create a very basic system so I can still 
do some work related tasks,  use wordperfect, go online and tellnet to my 
shell account,  etc.
Thought I might seek a tad more since I must have something, but that is 
the basic goal here.
Karen

On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, BlindTech of BlindTechs.Net wrote:

> What are you needing this for?
> Gabe Vega
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> On Feb 5, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>> I realize that laptops have been discussed in the past, but I am
>> unsure if
>> my specific goals were addressed.
>> for a rather unusual reason I must obtain a laptop that will have
>> functional clear speech and allow me to work as I normally do with my
>> computer.  I do not have a Linux DOS as of yet, but would need to find
>> this with the absolute least amount of tampering possible because I am
>> short on time.
>> I prefer dectalk speech, but to be honest I have not heard the
>> synthesizer
>> alternatives for Linux.  I am not a windows user, so do not want a duo
>> system unless
>> it is a Linux Dos one, or a Linux mac one if this is even possible.
>> I also have a limited budget grin.
>> Any ideas as to where i might begin?
>> I am also weighing the option of a mac laptop, or a windows one
>> stripped
>> down to work  with DOS only.
>> Any wisdom welcome on or off list.
>> Thanks,
>> Karen
>>
>>
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