[Hackability] speech synthesizer questions

[Susan Werner]

OK, so solutions that have been proposed to me off-list basically are:
-keyboard+display+speaker with my ARM board
-just use an Android tablet with pre-existing software 
 (http://appsforaac.net/content/aac-apps-android-0 has links to potentially 
 useful software, btw)

What are possible ways to go about actually setting up things physically? Like,
with either of those solutions, there's gonna be an input device i need to have
accessible to me, along with a power source and speakers. How do I go about 
carrying around all of that? 

-- 
Susan

On Nov 03 04:07, Susan Werner <heinousbutch at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have lots of difficulties with both making and processing speech (related 
> to me being on the autistic spectrum) and am considering making or getting 
> a speech synthesizer to be able to communicate when I'm unable to speak. What
> do y'alls recommend for something that's able to do that without being too 
> expensive? Someone I know recommended getting a cheap android tablet but 
> iunno how expensive and reliable that'd be. I was also thinking of taking my
> beaglebone ARM board (which runs Linux) and interfacing a keyboard and a 
> speaker and just running some speech synth software on it.
> 
> With both those questions, there's the issue of how to set things up physically
> 'cuz iunno how best to do that. Does anyone have ideas?
> 
> -- 
> Susan