Trying to come back?

[Michael Whapples]

Hello,
I think people have covered most of the things I would say, but there 
are a few things left (I think).

Most people seem to say about using speech-dispatcher for other synths 
and this is generally the only way other synths can be used, however if 
you choose the viavoice synth (either as voxin or ttsynth) then there is 
a speakup connector for it available at the ttsynth website (the 
connector is freely available and is under an open source license). This 
connector I believe uses ALSA for audio output.

If you wish to stick with an entirely free system then I feel espeak and 
espeakup are the best out there. You may wish to have a look at all the 
voices available (eg. you may find the female versions better, or you 
may find one of the other accents better, or may be even one of the 
other varients).

As for installing extra software on GRML, just use the standard debian 
packages, GRML is meant to follow debian's standards and actually uses 
debian's repositories for some of its packages. The system I am using to 
write this email is running GRML and I installed gnome onto it from 
debian's repositories. As suggested, you may wish to change it to use 
testing or you may want to install plain debian by using grml-debootstrap.

Michael Whapples

On -10/01/37 20:59, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> Hi Joe! Welcome back.  We've missed you around here.
>
> You can use speech-dispatcher with quite a few different synths on
> grml or debian and ubuntu.  Some of them are commercial so they cost a
> small amount depending on the synth.  Some of them sound better than
> espeak also.  However, none of the speech-dispatcher synths will give
> you the responsiveness of espeakup with espeak.  So you'll need to
> make a choice between quality of speech and response.  I myself use
> espeakup/espeak exclusively anymore and have become pretty comfortible
> with many of the espeak voices.  espeak has quite a few different
> accents you can play with to get a better idea of it's capability so
> you may find one you like or can tolerate.
>
> I'm really sorry to hear about the fire but am very glad to hear about
> the new family.  Good luck with your set-up and again welcome back.
>   Kirk
> -- 
> Kirk Reiser                The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca        University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
>