Some Questions about Ubuntu and Orca

[Rynhardt P Kruger]

As far as I know, jokosher works with orca. audacity also, but I couldent get the F9 key to bring the menubar up for me, 
so I use alt+f, alt+e etc to get at the menus.

As far as interpreters go, the tads2 and tads3 interpreter frob works fine if you are happy with playing games in the 
gnome terminal, z code frotz and nfrotz also works in the terminal.

The audio games sound rts and audio quake also works on linux.

Take care,

Rynhardt

* Chris Norman <chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com> [080225 13:26]:
> On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 17:15 -0600, Kelly Sapergia wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     My laptop is now set up to boot from CDs, so I can now try the 
> > live CD version of Ubuntu. I have a couple questions about the system:
> > 
> > 1. Can you use any other soft synths with Orca? I know it comes with 
> > eSpeak, but I'm not too impressed with the voice. If not, that's OK, 
> > I'm sure I'll get used to it.
> 
> Yes you can, festival, flite, IBMTTS, ... To be fair though, although
> epseak doesn't sound particulally human, it is a lot clearer than most
> comercial voices, such as hal (Dolphin), and you'll find if you listen
> to it for a long period of time, it doesn't tend to get menotanous. I've
> been using ESpeak for over 24 hours solid now today (and yesterday), and
> it hasnI still find it easy to listen to, whereas hal would have begun
> to grate on me by now.
> > 
> > 2. As far as applications go, are there any good audio editors or 
> > players, and games (such as text adventure interpreters) that can be 
> > used with Ubuntu and Orca?
> 
> Brilliant ones.. They just don't work with orca. By games interpreters,
> I guess you mean the old z5 interpreters? I think if you go into google
> and search for z5 interpreters or something, then you may find some
> stuff. Or there are plenty of MUDs, you can even set up your own, if you
> compile something like TBAMUD, or CIRCLE.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> 
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