[orca-list] New Linux user, needing higher quality speech...

[Daniel Hawkins <computersassociated gmail com>]

Hello everyone!

Hi my name is Daniel, and this is my first post. I do have to admit, I am completely new with Linux. Back 
when i could see I have played around with a live Slax cd in highschool, but that was about 15 years ago!

Now as a completely blind person I havethe live CD of VInux. I already have experience with Mac Voiceover, 
IOS, JAWS and NVDA. I was playing around with the Orca screenreader, and one problem I am having is the 
ESpeak voice. I am considered profound deaf, but I use a hearingaid to help me hear. I can understand some 
voices, and there are voices I do not understand. The voices that comes with Orca by default acually hurts my 
ears or not clear enough for me. The Samathma voice or the Sarita voice is a bit understandable, but so far 
ESpeak is the best on the preloaded default.

So, my question is, is there a higher quality voice that I can easily install? I have heard of the festival 
voices, but I heard that it is only for command line right?

I have been doing a lot of research, and i am afraide to say, I know nothing about command lines, and i see a 
lot of Linux command are command line driven.

Any info on this I would greatly appreciate this, Thanks!
Daniel Hawkins
- Posted from my Macbook Pro