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 > > -- > > Sent from Ubuntu 17.04 > > ------------------------------- > Jos Lemmens > The Netherlands > E-mail: j...@jlemmens.nl > Homepage: www.jlemmens.nl -- Sent from Ubuntu 17.04 ------------------------------- Jos Lemmens The Netherlands E-mail: j...@jlemmens.nl Homepage: www.jlemmens.nl
