Re: another idea for speech

[Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>]

On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Steve Holmes wrote:

> Well, since most of the other solutions are *FREE* for access to
> linux, I really doubt a company like Synthavoice would willingly
> develope a product for Linux.  Most access vendors sell their
> DOS/Windows stuff for well over $500 so they would mostlikely charge a
> similar price for their Linux product.  Since I'm just playing around
> with Linux here at home, I would not personally be willing to pay such
> a price.

Are there any solutions, are they free, and are they usable? More to the
point, do you _need_ the functions that Synthavoice could provide, and
would Linux be a good platform to work under? If so, $500 doesn't seem
impossible. 

I don't see how any encouragement of development for blind access software
can be a bad thing, commercial or not. And the mere existance of
commercial software need not stop the amateurs.

--
Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)


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