Re: newbie questions

[Jos Lemmens <jos@jlemmens.nl>]

Hello Nicolas,

I was forgotten something.
In Debian there is espeak:

   sudo apt install espeak

And there is Mbrola:

   http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola/mbrtts.html

   Regards,

      Jos.

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 09:14:34AM +0200, Jos Lemmens wrote:
> 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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