[DECtalk] getting the software dectalk run time for linux working with any linux screen reader

[Carlos Fernandez]

Two things:
TTSynth was eloquence, at least from everything I've read.
Eloquence is, as far as I know, still usable on linux if you install 
voxin. Unfortunately, this is a paid product, so many do not have this.
I just stick to eSpeak when I am running linux. I would also recommend 
ekho if you also speak Chinese or Korean.

Carlos
On 7/11/2014 02:18, Tony Baechler wrote:
> The short version is no, it's not going to happen.  TTSynth was basically a
> prepackaged DECtalk for Linux but is now abandoned.  The Windows software
> version will never work with Linux.  Since TTSynth is no longer supported
> and was commercial, you aren't going to find it.  Even if you found it
> illegally, it's precompiled so would probably not work with newer libraries.
>   It suffers from the same issues as IBM Viavoice in that it only runs on
> very old 32-bit libraries which are no longer supported.  Your only software
> choices for Speakup are ESpeak and FLite.  Besides, all software synths
> require a Speakup connector and I don't know if the ones for ViaVoice or
> TTSynth are even still downloadable.
>
> On 2014-07-10 06:38 PM, Nick Gawronski wrote:
>> Hi, I have a dectalk express I am using on my desktop with both windows and
>> linux installed using the speakup screen reader and was just wondering if
>> anyone here has managed to get the linux software version of dectalk working
>> with any linux screen reader?  I remember a long time ago someone had
>> managed to do this but am not sure what they did to make this happen.  Nick
>> Gawronski
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