writing spk howto (?)

[hank]

yes please please do go ahead with the how to!!!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <willem at top.health.gov.za>
To: "David Bruzos" <david at bruzos.org>
Cc: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: writing spk howto (?)


> Hi,
> Go ahead with the software synth howto.
> As you say the docs is a little outdated.
> Do you have speakup running using software speech under fedora c2?
> If so, I would like to have the details, howto or no howto.
> Regards, Willem
>
>
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, David Bruzos wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello everyone:
>> This is my first time posting to this mailing list.  I have come here 
>> many times before to find info about Linux and
>> Speakup. I have a running system largely due to the existence of this 
>> list.  So, first, I like to thank the people that
>> organize it and everyone involved in Speakup for their work.  Kirk is the 
>> man!
>>
>> Last week I searched through the archives for hours to find out how to 
>> configure my software synth.  I saw, among other
>> things that there are no howtos for discribing this process and that most 
>> of the documentation is somewhat outdated.
>> Anyway, it would have been much earier for me to setup software speech if 
>> there would have been an organized guide or
>> howto, that explains how to do it...  I am sure that this is no news to 
>> most people in this list!
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> 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 am 23 years old and totally blind, so speakup is very important for me. 
>> I have been using Linux for about one year
>> and used Windows/jfw before that.  I started with Fedora Core 1 and now 
>> use
>> Fedora Core 2 and Mandrake 10 as well.  The reason for Mandrake is so 
>> that I can help my father when required...
>>
>> Thanx!
>>
>> David
>>
>>
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