Need help getting debian installation media speaking

[jim grimsby]

Ok sounds good after you get it installed with speakup what needs to be done
to get gnome support.  Is the screen reader included with it?  Thanks.  

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From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Lorenzo Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 2:50 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Need help getting debian installation media speaking


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The standard Debian Sarge CD image unfortunately doesn't include Speakup.  I
used the image found at:

http://people.debian.org/~shane/netinst-speakup/sarge-i386-speakup-20050129.
iso

to get a talking install.  Unfortunately, this image doesn't include
software speech support out of the box, as I found out when trying to get a
talking install on my laptop which doesn't have a serial port for a hardware
synth.  If you do happen to have a hardware synth and a place to plug it
into your PC, you can build the speechd-up program from source once Debian
is installed to ultimately use software speech.  The nice thing about Debian
is that speechd-up is one of very few programs you will ever need to build
from source, unless you just like to compile source code. <grin>  I
currently only have 3 binaries in /usr/local/bin.

And mp3 support is built into Debian, unlike Fedora, which makes you jump
through hoops to get it.

I hope this helps you at least a little, and please don't give up on Debian.
It rocks!

Lorenzo
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