Charles,
To clarify, your question is inappropriate without a professional
grounding.
Please stop attempting to justify your question.
The statement about dectalk being from 1984 alone illustrates you have not
done your homework.
since you wish to make this about my body, I will appease.
In my production studio, there is a computer with a Linux install..I might
have met the sender on this Liston fact.
When speech is activated, it takes less than 10 seconds for me to begin
experiencing seizure like symptoms....followed by dizziness, and a risk of
hospitalization, if I keep pushing it by listening. so as I have said
more than once Linux speech is a nonstarter.
My word should have been enough for you, but it was not.
If you believe the entire of humanity processes sound interchangeably, then
you should attend more music concerts in various genres.
Or note the increase in vinyl and cd sales when compared to mp3.
Clear enough for you?
There are fine books on auditory processing disorder. One of them is
called the brain's way of healing.
I had a stroke in an eye surgery, after being overexposed to anesthetic.
How things sound for me differ from you...end. of. discussion.
On Wed, 21 Oct 2026, Charles wrote:
Karen,
To clarify, I was asking what goes wrong with Linux speech in your experience,
as bugs
to triage. You owe nobody an explanation about your health. The 1984 remark was
meant
as praise for DECtalk.
Charles.
On Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 18:28, Karen Lewellen
<[email protected]> wrote:
Greetings everyone,
I do respect the nature of this list.
However, none of you are medical professionals...nor is the below correct.
I experience an aquired brain injury. My dectalk set up is not from 1984,
what an odd idea.
The dectalk voices have been updated long after then...ask Stephen
Hawking
Further, I do not feel I have to justify information documented from
direct exposure, years of medical testing, and the advice of practicing
doctors responsible for my care...so I am sharing the below with the list.
On Wed, 21 Oct 2026, Charles wrote:
Dear Karen,
I work at Canonical on the Linux Desktop. I was very interested to read about
your computing setup.
I quote below you saying Linux speech would put you in the Hospital. Can you
elaborate more on that? Were you even able to try a Linux speech system?
I read elsewhere you run a DECtalk system. It amazes me that the speech
synthesis from 1984 sounds better than what Linux distros in 2026 ship by
default, if at all.
I also work on a speech-to-text system for Ubuntu, which I hope will be a
useful accessibility feature going forward. However, it sounds like you will
never be able to try since your primary interface is a non-graphical DOS
system, connected to a DECtalk? Is that right?
Kind regards,
Charles.
On Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 14:25, Karen Lewellen
<[email protected]> wrote:
Again, there will be no Linux speech of any kind on this unit.
such would put me in Hospital.
Instead, I am using ssh, from DOS, into this box.
On Wed, 21 Oct 2026, didier gaumet wrote:
Le 21/10/2026 à 14:32, Charles Curley a écrit :
On Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:51:56 -0400 (EDT)
Karen Lewellen <[email protected]> wrote:
HP Compaq dc7900 Small Form Factor Desktop
Intel Core2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.0GHz
4MB DDR2 RAM
[..]
Given that you won't be running a graphical user interface (GUI), you
should be fine with 4 GB. If the hardware will let you add more RAM,
you can do so at any time.
Hello,
I am not knowledgeable about all that but 4GB is not much and Karen's
computer processor, while 64 bits so Debian 13 compatible, is old (18 years).
From what I have heard, Text-To-Speech (TTS) can use AI (either a local LLM
or a cloud based solution) that improves quality, but potentially at the cost
of a greater need for physical resources (memory, computing power...).
There is a little explanation here:
https://linuxvox.com/blog/tts-linux/
I don't know what Karen uses, is currently satisfied with, and so on, but I
would personally be cautious about giving Karen advices to migrate fully to
Linux, because if something turns bad, that is she, not I, who risks being
stuck with a temporary lack of a working PC :-)
If she can be assisted, on site, by a linux-competent friend or Linux User
Group, that is different :-)
