General questions from someone who's never used Speakup...

[Scott Berry]

Chris,

What is espeek I have never heard of it and how does one get it to work?

Scott
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Norman" <cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: General questions from someone who's never used Speakup...


> I'd start out with GRML,
> It speaks out of the box, with a boot line like:
> grml swspeak lang=uk keyboard=uk
>
> You can install that. When you've gotten used to it, I'd recommend 
> something
> like Fedora, it can be installed with braille or remotely, and you can get
> it speaking with ESpeak quite easily.
>
> HTH,
>
> Chris Norman
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James Homuth" <james at the-jdh.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 11:52 PM
> Subject: General questions from someone who's never used Speakup...
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>>I do have linux experience, though not running it off my own machine,
>> since until recently I'd been unaware of anything remotely decent so
>> far as text-to-speech capabilities for it. What I'd like to know,
>> however, is what kind of feedback/configurability is offered with the
>> current version of Speakup? I should probably point out that, coming
>> from Windows, I'm probably going to end up comparing this with
>> whatever expectations I have after using JAWS and/or Window Eyes.
>> I've been tossing around the idea of finding a spare machine just to
>> fiddle around with linux and check out Speakup, at the very least,
>> but I like to know what I'm getting into before I go and jump in with
>> both feet. If anyone knows where I can get my hands on something like
>> a demo of the program in action, or can maybe tell me what their
>> experience with Speakup has been like, that'd be awesome. Email me on
>> or off list, whichever.
>>
>> James
>>
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