Speech Works Now, Quic Qs about Dispatcher Tweaking and Magnification

[Jonathan Duddington]

In article <000301c6e66c$a3b2d360$7901a8c0 at centrino>,
   Veli-Pekka Tätilä <vtatila at mail.student.oulu.fi> wrote:

> Just reporting that eSPeak speaks with speech-Dispatcher now. Great
> stuff. I think this is much more intelligible and responsive than
> Festival is.

Is it speaking Finnish yet? :-)

> Is there a good, canonical speech-dispatcher config for eSpeak?

The one that you listed previously is indeed old.  They should be file
names in  espeak-data/voices.

> AddVoice   "en"    "male1"    "en"
> AddVoice   "en"    "male2"    "en-b"
> AddVoice   "en"    "MALE3"    "en-d"
etc.

The "en" voice for "male1" is OK, but the other voice names have  have
changed ("been rationalized" :-)  

You could try the  Speakup  mailing list.
  http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

There are knowledgeable users of Speech Dispatcher plus eSpeak there,
and also there has been recent discussion of Orca.