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[Anthony Creapeau]

Yes, I have a dectalk express.


Anthony Creapeau
Voice mail: (414) 418-1599
email: creapeaa at msoe.edu
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From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Luke Yelavich
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:29 AM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: your mail

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On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 05:44:16PM EST, Anthony Creapeau wrote:
> How do I Migrate from windows to Linux? I'm using Windows now but I
> really want to move to a blind accessible version of Linux.

Have you got a hardware speech synthesizer that can be connected via a
serial port to your computer?

> I've downloaded Knoppix_speakup and oralux but can not get knoppix to
> talk and do not want to learn the complicated commands of oralux.

WHat have you tried to do to get it going?

> How can I get knoppix to talk and what version of ubuntu or debian
> will talk right from the start?

It depends on whether you have a hardware synthesizer, and whether you are
willing to learn and possibly get help in getting things set up.

If you have a hardware speech synthesizer, you might be best off starting
with Debian or Fedora, as there are CDs that can be downloaded that get you
going with speech straight away. Ubuntu unfortunately doesn't offer a text
installation that is spoken yet, but can be installed via GUI using the
GNOME accessibility tools, although even that is still a bit fiddly.

> I'd really like to move to Linux but I've had no luck so far. I'd
> really appreciate feedback.

The more info you give us, the better we can help you. So if you have any
more info to add, as well as what has been asked previously in this email,
that would be a great help to us.
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