speech in bios, was: Re: Updated Speakup how to

Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Fri Jun 28 00:15:43 EDT 2002


How would you print the bios screen to a serial synth to hear the output? It would be sooo nice to get speech in bios..
Greg


On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:51:59PM -0400, Patrick Turnage wrote:
> I think you are confused as to what speakup is exactly..
> that would be 
> no.
> no
> no
> no
> no.
> 
> 1.
> Speakup is designed for the linux operating system as a kernel patch. It
> will not run on any windows based system.
> I do not know how hard it would be to port speakup to other arches, but who
> knows.
> 2.
> Again, I believe you have been misinformed as to the functions of speakup.
> I do not believe it will allow you to complete this task. If you need
> speech in your bios and have an external synthesizer, you may be able to
> print your screen to hear the output.
> 3. See question 1.
> 4. you may be  able to install certain network software on the windows
> machines and novel, and control them.. also windows 2000 has a telnet service.
> I want to recommend the speakup site at 
> http://www.linux-speakup.org
> to learnabout this wonderful screen reader for Linux..
> I wonder has anyone ever got speakup to work on Linux PPC, or on other
> arch? I'm just curious.
> 
> 
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