speakup using different synths with software speech?

[Tony Baechler]

Yes, but it's considered experimental and still has a slight British 
accent. I think a lot of the problem, at least for me, is what I'm used 
to. I did use Espeak for a long time yesterday from the Ubuntu live CD 
trying to get my system to boot and I got to where I didn't mind too 
much. I still would want an alternative for reading books and long 
passages of text, but I could get used to it for daily tasks. Actually, 
I was very impressed with how well it and Orca worked in the Gnome 
Terminal. I think I got my boot problems fixed, and I had no problem 
mounting my LVM volumes and fixing grub. I actually liked it better than 
grml, which locked up twice. Also, I'm finding that the sound card makes 
more difference than I thought. At first, I thought it was just the 
speakers, but the machine I was working on had a new onboard sound 
chipset that I hadn't used before. It was actually not that bad. 
Finally, by default, Speakup and Orca don't use the US English voice, so 
it takes some adjustment to get them to use it. I'm still looking for 
suggestions for a decent sounding voice for reading books, but for now I 
can live with either using Espeak or my hardware synths with the 
Emacspeak speech servers.

Willem van der Walt wrote:
> Espeak does also have an us english voice.
>