Questions about orca and speakup

[Scott Ford]

Hi,
	Could you tell me how I can start speakup, with the software synth,
in ubuntu?  If you could just point me to a site to figure it out, that
would be great also.  I would really like to be able to use speakup in a
terminal session.  Thankyou
Scott
 

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From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Lorenzo Taylor
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 12:50 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Questions about orca and speakup

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Having just installed Ubuntu on my laptop and found out that it is
definitely worth all the hype around it I would like to answer this one.

I personally recommend moving to Ubuntu.  It just works(TM) and the Debian
package management rocks.

As for Speakup, it's already in the Ubuntu Edgy kernel.  Just put the module
for your synthesizer in /etc/modules and you're good to go.  It's a little
more involved if you want software speech, but not as hard as in other
distros such as pure Debian.  The biggest problem you may fase in Ubuntu is
if you want Speakup to start right when the system starts booting.  Then you
will need to rebuild the kernel since Speakup is built as modules.
Otherwise, if you like the modular approach, it's extremely easy to get up
and running, and putting the speakup modules in your initrd may actually
solve the problem of the late start without having to rebuild the kernel.

HTH and HAND,
Lorenzo
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