[aklug] Re: Speech-dispatcher

By default Ubuntu attempts to be accessible to persons who may not
have the same input and output system us sighted people use.

Check out the Accessibility options in your preferences in a gnome session.

- Shane.

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:
> My Fedora box has that as well, I'd never noticed.
>
> I am kind of curious as to why? I had run across that at that sometime
> in the past when I was looking at speech recognition, but that tool was
> part of speech synthesis.
>
> The reason I'm trying to figure out why we have is is that I thought it
> required a speech synthesizer (hardware) to work and I haven't
> physically seen one of those since the '80s. Not a common piece of
> hardware as far as I know. Then again, Linux boxes seem to be set up to
> talk to a lot of devices I'd either never heard of or saw no way I'd
> ever have MY hands on.
>
> Maybe there's some way of doing a virtual synthesizer with common sound
> systems?
>
> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 18:59 +0000, damien@linuxninjas.tv wrote:
>> I have no idea what this is. I just did an update to ubuntu 9.10 & the last thing on the screen says "setting up python-speechd".
>>
>> Is this "speech" as in talking? If it is that's kinda cool.
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