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

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

The SpeechDispatcher API has some limitations which make the user 
experience with orca a little less nice - as I understand it, 
SpeechDispatcher doesn't support completion/progress tags within an 
utterance, it can only tell you when an entire utterance is complete.  
While I hear that espeak's quality is quite nice, that may be outweighed 
by this limitation.

Many end-users seem to prefer DecTalk for quality of speech over our 
current free alternatives, and there's a gnome-speech driver for it that 
supports progress markers.  Will Walker or Mike Pedersen will know more 
about the details.

regards

Bill

Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
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> Rather than a commercial speech solution, I would recommend eSpeak at 
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> http://espeak.sourceforge.net
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> HTH,
> Lorenzo
> - -- 
> I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse.
> - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment)
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