Re: newbie questions

[Jos Lemmens <jos@jlemmens.nl>]

Hello Nicolas,

Cepstral offers you good voices. They have two Canadian French voices,
Isabelle and Jean-Pierre.
I know nothing about orca, but the Cepstral voices work fine with
eBook-speaker.

   Regards,

      Jos.

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 03:00:21AM +0200, Nicolas Graner wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I just joined this list because I am considering switching to Debian as
> my main OS (currently running Windows and cygwin). Being visually
> impaired, I need both full screen magnification and speech output in
> French and English.
>
> I have two questions at the moment:
>
> 1) are there good quality French voices available for free or not too
> expensive? Which screen readers can use them?
>
> 2) how much RAM would you recommend to run GNOME and Orca comfortably on
> a laptop? My vendor says 3 GB is plenty, can you confirm this?
>
> Thanks for your help. I will probably have more questions later :)
>
> Nicolas

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