what is the best text to speech voice software that works with Linux and linux based applications please?

[Littlefield, Tyler]

On 10/18/2012 12:07 PM, Hank & Patty wrote:
> Hello,
>
Please don't hijack threads.

> I am trying to find the best text to speech voice software that will 
> enable me as a totally blind computer user to be able to use the linux 
> operating system platform and use different linux based applications 
> with the linux operating system. Of the following 3 text to speech 
> voice softwares I just a day or 2 ago found out about that I guess 
> work pretty good with the linux platform to use different linux based 
> applications those being Emacspeak, speakup and orca, can someone 
> maybe please let me know which one of these 3 text to speech programs 
> they feel works best for a totally blind person to be able to use the 
> linux operating system to use different linux based applications? Any 
> help with this would be so very much appreciated. Much thanks in 
> advance for any help on this.
>
> It really depends what you want to do. Emacspeak works with emacs, 
> Speakup on the cli and Orca from within a gui. If you want to use 
> emacs full-time, I recommend emacspeak. If you're like me, you will 
> use emacs and the cli, in which case you'll need both emacspeak and 
> speakup. Orca works with gnome, so, if you want a GUI that's what 
> you'll use.

>
> All the best,
>
> Hank
>
>
> From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at gregn.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:53 PM
> Subject: Re: more hardware speech and a question
>
>
>> 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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