Hello...

[Cody Hurst]

Hello,
  External synths are quite pricy and should, in my opinion, be  
purchased if it is really going to be used productively, otherwise  
try to get a used one, which might be hard.

Cody
I have never had Gnome or orca crash on me.
On Jun 14, 2007, at 4:55 PM, ace wrote:

> Orca and Gnome are both great products and I would encourage their  
> use but,
> if your budget allows, you should probably purchase a DoubleTalk LT  
> which is
> an external hardware synthesizer.  The desktop environment still  
> has its
> quirks and if it unexpectedly dies you will be dumped into a shell,  
> so best
> to have hardware speech if at all possible.  Insure that you have a  
> serial
> port, though.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gaijin" <gaijin at clearwire.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 5:54 AM
> Subject: Hello...
>
>
>
>>     Hello all,
>>
>>     Just joined the list and thought I's say "hello" to everyone.
>> Really nice to find a place like this.  I'm a rabid Linux fanatic who
>> went blind from diabetic retinopathy in August of '02, and I've been
>> pretty much offline ever since.  Finally broke down and upgraded my
>> system to support WinXP and quickly heard about SpeakUp for  
>> Linux.  I'm
>> in the process of looking for a supported speech synth for  
>> SpeakUp, so
>> I'm still stuck in Windows on a 30 minute Win-Eyes time limit.  I  
>> hope
>> to soon get Slackware up and running, and soon be able to  
>> contribute to
>> the SpeakUp effort right along-side everyone.  I'm presently playing
>> around with a copy of Oralux and learning the features.  Just need  
>> that
>> speech synthesizer, and I should be off and running.  Thank you  
>> for all
>> your efforts.  It is well appreciated.
>>
>>     Best regards,
>>         Michael "Foreign White Devil" Ferranti
>>
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