Debian install with Software Speech?

[Zachary Kline]

Hiya,
    The reason I couldn't use a hardware synth is precisely because I don't 
have a serial port on any of my machines.  It's downright annoying, but I 
wish there were support for USB to serial adaptors, or something along those 
lines.  Either that, or preferably USB synths directly.
Thanks much,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 7:42 AM
Subject: Re: Debian install with Software Speech?


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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline at hotmail.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:52 AM
> Subject: Debian install with Software Speech?
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>> Hiya,
>>    I don't have access to a hardware speech synthesizer, and so was
>> wondering what the options are for me to get a Debian install.  I know
>> that Gentoo can run SSHD, and let me do the install manually with another
>> machine, but Deebian doesn't seem to do this.
>> Does anybody have any advice?
>
> I've done a couple of installs via the old serial tty approach. There are
> still a lot of howtos out on the web for this but briefly, what you need 
> to
> do is attach a null modem cable to the serial port on the target machine,
> connect the other end to a machine that already has speech and fire up a
> terminal emulator program on  that machine.  At the boot prompt, type 
> 'linux
> console=ttyS0,9600n8'. There are lots of variations on what you'd type at
> the boot prompt so consult the howtows.
>
>
>
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