festival/text to speech

[Denis Jacquerye]

Will H. Backman wrote:
> Gnopernicus is the package that does screen reading and magnification
> for the Gnome desktop.  It usually uses Festival for the text to speech.
> It will only work well for recent GTK+ apps, and in general is not as
> good as Jaws or ZoomText on Windows.  Many recent applications do not
> include the text hints that a screen reader needs.
> 
> For me, Firefox and OpenOffice are slient.  I think this is because they
> are not using native GTK, but use their own cross-platform stuff.
> 

How does Gnopernicus speech work with Abiword, Gnumeric and Epiphany?

I would try it myself but I cannot get festival voices in the
Gnopernicus Speech Preferences. The only voices offered are FreeTTS' 
which is not installed.