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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
