[NFBCS] speech for CentOS:

[Jack Heim]

Orca always works through a sound card. I do not believe it can work 
through a hardware speech synth.


There are 2 totally different approaches to using a terminal in linux. 
One is to use speakup and the other is to use a terminal emulator with 
orca. If you are already using orca you can probably press Control+Alt+t 
all at once to open the default terminal emulator. If that doesn't work, 
you can try pressing Alt+F2 and typing 'gnome-terminal'.


If you are not already using orca and wish to use the Linux terminal, 
you should be able to start speakup without installing anything if you 
have a hardware speech synthesizer. If you do not have a hardware speech 
synth, you will have to install espeakup. Once you install espeakup, you 
should get speech immediately via your sound card.


Lots of things can go wrong with all of these processes. They are 
supposed to just work and most of the time they do. If you have trouble, 
you should subscribe to the email list for those systems. I can get you 
those addresses if you need them.





On 1/19/20 7:00 AM, Charles E. Black via NFBCS wrote:
> I need to access speech on the CentOS 7 system. If anyone has direction to
> achieve this, it would be appreciated.
>
> I am using the terminal aspect of CentOS. Can I use ORCA to access a
> terminal session? If not, is there a method to get speech to work through a
> soundcard?
>
> Charles E. Black, MS.
> charleseblack at att.net
> (803)463-0040
>
>
>
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