Using espeak

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

Cool, thanks for posting the Ubuntu installation howto--I'd not known  
about using ctrl-tab to exit the city selection in ubiquity, and that  
was the only sticking point for me. :)

Now I'm trying to set up a comfortable development environment, and  
must admit that festival's slurry voice is one of the major factors  
keeping me on my mac. I've tried espeak and, while I don't think I  
could handle it for reading books and such, it should do rather  
nicely for development.

I looked over the "linux accessibility demo" thread earlier this  
month to refresh my memory, because I remembered reports that espeak  
and orca might not work so well together. If I read the thread  
correctly, though, the problems are with speech-dispatcher and orca.

Here's where I'm confused--if speech-dispatcher support in orca is  
being held back by the lack of callback support, does that affect  
using speech-dispatcher through gnome-speech? The exact reasoning  
behind the not-so-niceness of using espeak with orca was never quite  
clarified, but is it a result of going directly from orca to espeak,  
as the thread made it sound as if the intent was to bipass gnome- 
speech completely? Are there any issues with using espeak via speech- 
dispatcher via gnome-speech, or is that not possible?

Thanks.