Would it be possible to switch from festival to the espeak software synth on the live cd? Festival and gnome-speech are two performance killers, and festival is huge. Meanwhile, espeak is small, fast, and very understandable. There is a speech-dispatcher backend for orca to allow orca to recognize speech-dispatcher. Seriously, when I use the ubuntu cd with my 2ghz processor, there is a noticeable delay between the time I press the arrow keys in a menu and the speech output. On the other hand, using the orca/speech-dispatcher/espeak combination on my hd installation, speech is fast and responsive. Btw, festival also yields slow responsiveness on the hd. Cheers, Josh
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