Fedora 6 and Speakup on New Thinkpad

[Ricky Enger]

Hi ,
To my knowledge, the only reasonably stable method of using the Dec 
Express with Orca is through the Emacspeak speech services 
driver.  It's slightly sluggish this way, but not so much as to make 
it unusable or even that annoying.  To make that work, you'll just 
need to yum for the latest version of Emacspeak.  You'll then see the 
choice for Emacspeak speech services in the speech system combo box 
in the speech tab of the preferences dialog.

Still, that doesn't address the practical aspects of getting the 
system installed in the first place.  The telnet idea is indeed a 
good one, and while I haven't played with the Fedora live CD, I know 
that in theory at least you can use the graphical installer and Orca 
to install the system.

As to whether Speakup or Emacspeak would work with the serial port on 
the docking station or other device, I really couldn't say.  My only 
experience with a "nonstandard" serial device is with a USB to serial 
adapter and it doesn't work with Speakup.  Oddly enough, haven't 
tried it with Orca yet. Maybe I'll go do that now, smile.

Good luck getting everything installed and configured.

Ricky

At 12:12 PM 3/8/2007, you wrote:

>Hello,
>Bare in mind that the Dectalk Express driver may have bugs in it.  I'm not
>even sure if its available in the stable Orca tree.  As far as Orca's
>concerned, its not available in Sid yet.  Looking at the status of Gnome
>in Experimental, it looks like to me that All the Gnome 2.16 stuff is
>built for Amd64.  Since I don't have access to an Amd64 box at present
>(Sparc64 I do), its not available to me even in Experimental.  However,
>when it does become available in Unstable, I'd be more than willing to
>post a little review for any of you who may be interested in it.  From
>what I've heard of in Forefox 3 betas, it looks very promissing for what's
>coming down the pike.