New comer

[Jon]

Dear Hamid,

Welcome to the world of open source,

1: yes it is possible to change the voice of Orca (the screenreader)
If you are looking for a voice that sounds like eliquence then have a 
look here:
http://voxin.oralux.net/
Some call it voxin, others call it IBM-tts.
I beleave there is another eliquence equivalent voice, called ttsynth, 
but I couldnt locate its website.
There are a few other voices, some free, others you have to pay a small 
amount for.


2: tested screenreaders? As you probably know everything in open source 
is always tested and revized/improved.
If you wish to have a fully graphical destop (as you have in windows), 
then Orca is the screenreader for you.

If you are happy with a command line and prefer this way of working then 
there is YASR, emacsspeak and a few other alternatives that I cant 
currently recall.


3: I believe the default Orca voice is espeak


Further more, I would strongly advice you to try the latest Orca 
sourcecode that can be checked out from svn, because major improvements 
are made on a regular basis, and therefore the package that comes on the 
cd might be out-dated.

The website of Orca is:
http://live.gnome.org/Orca
and the Orca mailing list is:
orca-list at gnome.org

Hope this has answered your initial questions.

-Jon
On Sat 29/09/2007 at 19:03:28, Hamid Vasheghani Farahani wrote:
> Hi all. It's a day or so that I've started to use unbuntu linux. I reside in Iran. Here nobody knows much about linux. I have one first question. Can we change the voice of unbuntu. I don't mean to change the language from english to something else, or changing the person's voice. I want to change the orca tts, from one manufacturer to another. and please somebody tell me of tested screen readers on unbuntu. And what is the name of the tts that orca uses by default? Note that I'm still using the live cd of ubuntu. So not a first question, my first three questions.
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