Re: newbie questions
Le 10/06/2017 à 03:00, Nicolas Graner a écrit :
Hello all,
Hello Nicolas, I'm also French too. You could join the French linux
mailing list that helps blind and visual-impaired : CBLX. To do that
send a mail to "carrefourblinux-request@lists.tuxfamily.org" with the
subject "subscribe".
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.
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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?
There are multiple choice :
* Mbrola
* Pico
* Kali TTS : see the demo page here :
http://www.crisco.unicaen.fr/Demonstration-de-Kali.html (it's a paid
voice sells for Linux by Hypra.fr)
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?
It's depend on what you want to do with your computer. For a regular
user 3 Gb of RAM is sufficient.
If you want to use a correct screen magnifier you couldn't use GNOME3
(gnome-shell). You should use Mate with Compiz from Hypra repository
(for Jessie at this time).
Compiz provides those features :
* Screen magnifier with focus tracking and important choice of settings
* Screen inversion with negative module or color filter for more
advanced color management
* Possibility to have a cross-hair around the mouse
* and so on :) !
Best regards.
--
Alex ARNAUD
Visual-Impairment Project Manager
Hypra - "Humanizing technology"
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