[Kde-accessibility] Information about orca

[Peter Korn]

Hi Hart,
> I just looked on your Orca page, but I didn't see a list of synthesizers,
> either hardware or software. I sure hope it may sound as good as 
> Eliquence or
> support a Dectalk U S B? Thanks

It's on the FAQ page, under the question "What voices are available?".  
See:
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-b8e4ba96980c5d02358f6fc012187a499ba43b08

Orca works with all voices/engines supported by gnome-speech, which 
today includes Festival, FreeTTS, Fonix DECtalk, and IBMTTS (which comes 
from the same source code base as Eloquence, and sounds remarkably 
similar).  I'm not aware of any hardware engines supported by 
gnome-speech directly, but my information may be old...


Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

P.S. This is another great question for the <orca-list at gnome.org> 
mailing list.  I encourage you to take your Orca questions there!