Re: ubuntu and software synthesiser

[Henrik Nilsen Omma <henrik ubuntu com>]

Bill Haneman wrote:
> Michael:
>
> You can use orca with DECtalk.  To do so, you will need to rebuild 
> gnome-speech, since by default the DECtalk driver is not built and 
> installed.  I believe that gnome-speech will build and install the 
> DECtalk drivers if DECtalk is detected on your system when you build.
>
> I will leave it to Will to explain how to select a TTS engine in orca's 
> preferences.
>
>   

Is there a way we can make this more user friendly? Are there licensing 
reasons why gnome-speech is compiled without DECtalk support or 
technical ones? If it's a question of some compile flags then I can ask 
our packagers to make a DECtalk-enabled version available.


Henrik