Debian install with Software Speech?

[John Heim]

I've done it. Not with  grml but with the modified knoppix CD on the speakup 
web site. That was probably a year and a half ago. I can't tell you exactly 
what to do because I took so many false turns that I couldn't reproduce my 
own steps.  It took me probably 4 or 5 hours but I got it to work 
eventually. If you know what you're doing you could probably do it in 
considerably less time.

I don't think it matters which live CD you use. I found the instructions I 
used by googling for 'knoppix debootstrap'. I'm sure if you google for 'grml 
debootstrap' you'll find lots of instructions.

----- 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: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: Debian install with Software Speech?


> 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?
>
>
>>
>> ----- 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?
>>
>>
>>> 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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