Re: [orca-list] Speech modules

[raphael poitevin gmail com (Raphaël POITEVIN)]

Hello,

James Austin via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> writes:
> Please correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that
> Speech-Dispatcher is now part of the kernel and so are the TTS
> modules  such as ESpeak. Is that  correct?

I don't know if it has been changed in last versions, but as I know,
that's not a kernel module.
> I am only asking because today I was surprised to find that Espeak is
> not installed on my system. I ran which espeak and no path was
> returned.

Do you mean you're using espeak with speech-dispatcher but you can't use
in command line? on Debian for instance, espeak is installed with
speech-dispatcher but not the cli.
> Does this mean that if programs use Speech-Dispatcher, they have
> access to all of the TTS modules without my needing to install them
> individually?

No.

Regards,
-- 
Raphaël