Re: Linux desktop accessibility demo - which programs should I install

[Lorenzo Taylor <lorenzo taylor homelinux net>]

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Rather than a commercial speech solution, I would recommend eSpeak at 

http://espeak.sourceforge.net

It works with speech-dispatcher and is Free and Open Source.  It also
sounds a lot better than Festival and is in most cases better than
either DECTalk or IBMTTS, especially the female voice.

Unfortunately, Orca in Ubuntu doesn't currently support
speech-dispatcher except through gnome-speech, and the speech-dispatcher
driver for gnome-speech may or may not be available in Ubuntu.  Someone
clarify this for me.  I'm not sure either if eSpeak is available in
Edgy, although I did read something to indicate that it is.

HTH,
Lorenzo
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