more hardware speech and a question

[Gregory Nowak]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 03:14:50PM +0100, Keith Barrett wrote:
> So, I have a 64 bytt machine and it seems for the moment, hardware
> speech is not going to work so I am wondering if/how I can get
> software speech working in the cli with speakup and with orca in the
> gui?

I have a 32-bit machine here that I've been upgrading since
debian etch I believe. I have speakup working via espeakup, and orca
working through whatever it uses (I seem to recall that's gnome speech
services). I am able to use both, and they don't get in each other's
way. Having said that, I don't know how/if your experience would vary
from mine on a fresh system, but I suspect that it probably shouldn't.

> 
> Also, I am hoping that software speech will be more reliable than it
> seems to be in the gui, I cannot count the number of times when I
> have depended on speakup and my old apollo after software speech in
> the gui has stopped working.
> 

Yes, software speech via espeakup in the text console is way more
reliable for me than orca, and lots more responsive too. Maybe I
should have said responsive to begin with, rather than reliable. I
personally find that software speech via espeakup is as reliable as
hardware speech most of the time, and in some situations depending on
the hardware synthesizer used, even more reliable. Just my $0.01
worth, take it as you will.

Greg


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