[orca-list] TTSynth and other returning user questions



Hi List,

I am returning to Orca after a couple of years away from it and I have a few returning user questions.

* ttsynth.com is kind of broken? A while back I purchased a ttsynth license, and I just jumped on ttsynth.com to grab the packages, but all the links seem kind of broken, the page is still there but none of the links are clickable, if I click on capital accessibility who appears to own ttsynth.com I get a default WordPress page, have these guys gone out of business, and if so is there an alternate download location I can use with my existing license?

* Desktop environments: so I’m starting with a Debian Jessie minimal install with no desktop environment installed yet, are there any recommendations which is the most accessible? should I stick with a basic gnome install or go for something a bit more light weight like XFCE?

* Speech dispatcher: so obviously I want the most responsive speech possible, is speech dispatcher still the recommended approach?

* Pulseaudio is it still evil? a few years back I remember it was good practice to kill off pulse audio, is that still best practice or should I leave it in place, on a similar thread should I install Jack, I know this is / was the default in Ubuntu Studio as it provided very low latency audio.

I guess I could have just installed from Ubuntu 15.10 and had a ready-to-go desktop environment, but I use Debian everywhere else I may as well stick with it for now.

All comments / feedback / suggestions are extremely welcome, and thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Mitch



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