[aklug] Re: Speech-dispatcher

So does Fedora, altho I'd never played with it. The part I didn't
realize was that software speech synthesizers had come so far.

Like I said before, the last time I looked at it was in the 80's. The
big thing then was the Votrax. There were Apple and S-100 cards
available available. They were expensive.

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 12:10 -0800, Shane Spencer wrote:
> 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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