Installing speakup with software speech

[Jayson Smith]

>From what I understand from the handbook, Gentoo's kernels include support
for just about every possible type of hardware, and Gentoo runs a hardware
detection process as the CD boots up.  However, that still might not detect
and activate the sound card in time for it to do Speakup any good.
Jayson.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Schmude" <jschmude at adelphia.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: Installing speakup with software speech


> Hi
> Do you mean installing FC2 with software speech? If so, right now
> you can't. I'm not sure how feasible this would be, either. I don't see
> much problem getting things like speech dispatcher and flite onto the CD,
> but I'm not sure how early FC2 detects the soundcard. I know it detects
> the monitor and video card right at the beginning (figures, right?) but
> I'm not sure where sound is activated. I've been thinking about this
> lately myself, as it sure would help people with no serial ports. FC2 may
> be the only distro it is feasible with at all, since distros like
> slackware don't even include sound modules on their installation
> disks--not sure about debian or gentoo, though.
> HTH
> P.S. That isn't speakup 1.5 in FC2--it's a fairly new CVS speakup. I think
> the only distro to still include speakup 1.5 is slackware.
>
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Sina Bahram wrote:
>
> SB> Hi guys,
> SB>
> SB> Is it possible to do the whole deal, from start to finish using
software
> SB> speech? So where I specify the synth, can I specify a software synth
and do
> SB> the install of Fedora 2? Then boot up with Speakup 1.5, then run a
checkout
> SB> script to get the latest speakup?
>
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