writing spk howto (?)

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 04:39:31 PM -0500, David Bruzos wrote:
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> So, I figured that now that I know how to do it, I can put together such a document.  In fact, I would like to 
> contribute by doing this.  I can not program well enough to improve speakup, but I could help out with the docs.  I 
> would like to write a general Linux/Speakup howto, but I can not promise that I can finish something like that any time 
> soon.  So, the software synth thing is a better short term goal.  I am a full-time student at the University of North 
> Florida and soon to be a Dad, so time might be a problem in the 
> comming weeks...

First of all congratulations. I have been working on the goal of a
speakup howto for a *long* time and you're right it won't likely be done
soon. If you put together something about getting speakup working with a
software synthesizer I would love to encorporate it. I have only had
marginal success so I don't want to document that. Mostly my problems
are with a rather slow system as far as a software synth is concerned
and that my box isn't stable when I try it.

You can see my work to date at
http://www.tomass.dyndns.org/~stivers_t/Speakup-HOWTO/Speakup-HOWTO.html

Janina Sajka has put together an altogether more useful howto for
speakup and fedora the address for which I can not remember. I am sure
any docs you can write for using a software synth would be appreciated.

> I would like to know what other mailing list members think about this.  Are there some reasons why I should not do this?  
> Are there other people working on a similar project?  Anywthing is cool.  Oh, I am also a Linux newbey, so I might ask 
> simple questions sometimes...

I love simple questions, they're the ones that are easy to answer

- -- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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