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

[Chris Norman]

Espeak (http://espeak.sourceforge.net) is a little program that will fit on 
a floppy disk about 3 times, it's a speech synthesizer, doesn't take much to 
compile either. Just install portaudio, and then edit the make file, 
putting -lpthread at the end of the libs= line, then type make. Copy the 
directory espeak-data to /usr/share and you should be good to go.

HTH,

Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Berry" <sberry at northlc.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: General questions from someone who's never used Speakup...


> 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...
>>
>>
>>>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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