I do not think that this question has ever been solved. Not just for linux but for windows too.
The Emacspeak has extremely powerful, needs very less hardware resources. Today the IBM TTs is not available free of cost on Linux thus if you need a good quality text to speech synthesiser then we do have to pay some money to get it. Festival is how ever, a resonable free of cost choice. If you have confidence on your memory then you should be comfortable with this interface. Give yourself a month or two to get comfortable on this system since you need to earn the emacs and related operations and also the approaches and speech commands. Orca on the other hand would have other advantages such as the support of GUI and support for wordprocessor or spread sheet like the open office. The choice would largely depend on what do you want to use PC for and what configuration do you have on the PC. These are not conflicting thus you could have both configured on your machine and play with them to determine what you would want to use for your daily tasks. Thanks Dipendra -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vishal M Jain Sent: 11 November 2006 06:52 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] New mailing list for linux and emacspeak created! Hello Dipendra sir and others, Can you please suggest which Linux Screen reader is more user friendly? Oralux. Which loads emacspeak or Ubuntu which has ORCA. Thanks in advance Regards, Vishal Jain Ph : 080-41140564 Website : http://vishal.hello.googlepages.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dipendra Manocha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 10:11 PM Subject: Re: [AI] New mailing list for linux and emacspeak created! > The first day of the workshop has just got over. It has been very > exciting. > We actually tried two self booting CDs. > > 1. Oralux. Which loads emacspeak directly. This distribution is meant > specially for persons with blindness and is extremely speech friendly. We > do > need to learn commands for getting around but it is really all very worth > all efforts. > > The second is the distribution of Ubuntu which comes with screen reader > called ORCA. It works well in the GNOM Graphic user environment and works > well with open office word and excel. > > Both these Cds are now available from NAB Delhi and if any one wants to > get > these CDs instead of downloading it from web site, you could send request > on > [EMAIL PROTECTED] There will be a charge of 15 rupees for the CD and > if > you want this to be sent by courier then 25 rupees need to be added for > this. Thus you could get these CDs in 40 rupees for one CD or 55 rupees > for > both. > > Thanks > Dipendra > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aruni Sharma > Sent: 10 November 2006 12:29 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AI] New mailing list for linux and emacspeak created! > > Hello friends, you will be glad to know that steps have been initiated in > order to start popularising the use of linux and emacspeak among the > visually impaired people in India with first such workshop going on at NAB > Delhi today and tomorrow. The results are encouraging and linux has great > potential to be used here in India. So in order to facilitate the exchange > of views, suggestions, problems and solutions about emacspeak in > particular > and linux in general, a new mailing list has been created on googlegroups. > The address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may search for emacspeak on > googlegroups page and subscribe or send me a private mail and I can ad you > to the mailing list. However, before you subscribe to the mailing list, > you > can start by downloading an image of the oralux project which can be burnt > onto a cd to make it a bootable as well as an instantly talking linux > program. it can be downloaded from http://oralux.org/ please note that the > file is about 500 MB in size. > > -- > regards, > Aruni. > Home Page: http://aruni100.googlepages.com > Ph: +91 522-4042921. mob: +91 933-584-4700 > msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > yahoo: aruni100 > skype: aruni_sharma > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. 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