A good place to look for the use and application of text to speech is Vinux - which originally was based on Ubuntu but because of problems with Ubuntu's default audio settings has moved over to Debian where just ALSA is used - and the synthesizer just rocks! Vinux 2.0 has speakup and espeakup, providing
console based screen reading as well as Orca with the Gnome desktop.
You can switch to a terminal session by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1. Both
Orca and speakup use espeak so there is no difference in voice quality
or performance between Orca and speakup.<br><br>The development news is here: <a href="http://vinux.org.uk/news/">http://vinux.org.uk/news/</a><br><br>And of course, the home page is <a href="http://vinux.org.uk/">http://vinux.org.uk/</a><br>
<br>It is an excellent system - !<br><br>(Disclaimer: I am on the devel team for this and we are currently building a CLI - console text only version which for some blind people is easier than X windows and Gnome.<br><br>
I've been away from THIS list and this project for six or more years - I am glad to see familiar names and I'm excited to hear about all the new progress.<br><br>Best wishes to all,<br><br>David Ring<br>Green Harbor, MA <br>
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> Has anyone come across this before?<br>
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> http:// <a href="http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/" target="_blank">http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/</a><br>
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