its talking spanish of course its not gunna sound the same dumbasses. and it says text recognition (text to speech) so ya. other than that the speech recognition on linux is so much better than vista's and its FREE.
It all comes down to the lack of TTS engines for linux. Orca uses the festival engine. It's all a matter of people programming better TTS engines for linux. That or porting existing TTS engines to linux. I use TTS due to some verbal speech difficulties. I currently use proprietary windows based TTS software on linux on my laptop due to the lack of TTS software for linux.
The TTS on the XO laptop has a decent sounding voice. I need to find out about using it on other GUI's besides sugar.
@purplemutantas Orca uses many engines through GNOME and Speech Dispatcher. Festival, eSpeak, dot dot dot
I will need to build a Debian grind that is mainstream but has a VI stream (i.e. to start up Orca all you need to do is press Ctrl-\ on your KB, two keys that are on a UK KB very close), or a VI version of Debian. It starts graphics so is usable by all, but will start Orca every time.
its talking spanish of course its not gunna sound the same dumbasses. and it says text recognition (text to speech) so ya. other than that the speech recognition on linux is so much better than vista's and its FREE.
carlos0951 3 years ago
This is speech synthesizes, not speech recognition. And Orca is a screen reader, not a TTS engine.
toppo1ino 3 years ago
even microsoft speech recognition, sounds better
s5zone 3 years ago
It all comes down to the lack of TTS engines for linux. Orca uses the festival engine. It's all a matter of people programming better TTS engines for linux. That or porting existing TTS engines to linux. I use TTS due to some verbal speech difficulties. I currently use proprietary windows based TTS software on linux on my laptop due to the lack of TTS software for linux.
The TTS on the XO laptop has a decent sounding voice. I need to find out about using it on other GUI's besides sugar.
purplemutantas 3 years ago
@purplemutantas Orca uses many engines through GNOME and Speech Dispatcher. Festival, eSpeak, dot dot dot
I will need to build a Debian grind that is mainstream but has a VI stream (i.e. to start up Orca all you need to do is press Ctrl-\ on your KB, two keys that are on a UK KB very close), or a VI version of Debian. It starts graphics so is usable by all, but will start Orca every time.
jjovereats 3 months ago