Re: [orca-list] What synth are people using?

[Mike Pedersen <Michael Pedersen Sun COM>]

Hi Mike,
> OpenSUSE currently provides festival and espeak, but gnome-speech is not 
> built with espeak support, and festival is used by default.  It seems to 
> me that espeak is more widely-used than festival these days, so we should 
> probably make it the default for 11.1, but I wanted to take an informal 
> poll to see which synth people prefer.  So, if people could email me and 
> let me know which synth you're using or if you have any input either way, 
> then I'd really appreciate it.
I personally use espeak all the time now and find it quite stable and
responsive.  It also gets frequent updates and is of course completely
opensource.    

Mike