intro and questions

[Alonzo]

Hello Tylor,

I am able to hear sound in fc9 and orca. I have an hp a1022n desktop. So
the sound card is built in. I have an external sound card, but that's
not currently installed in my computer. The main thing here is I'm
trying to get speakup working with ttsynth and be able to listen to
music when reading documents with Orca. I enjoy listening to music while
reading materials for school. Currently this can't be accomplished since
I lose speech when trying to play audio at the same time. I either lose
speech, or have to kill speech befor hearing an mp3 file using totem
movie player. Alternatively if this is available in speakup by default
with ttsynth, then that will do.
I believe alsa is install or else I would not be able to hear orca or
music with out speech.

Thanks,
Alonzo

On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 16:43 -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> Hello,
> regarding your bootloader question:
> You'll need to specify the synth in the kernel line, I believe.
> As for sound, have you installed the alsa driver for your card? either 
> you've got a multi channel or alsa is not correctly configured--I had to 
> replace the soundcard in my system a few days ago in order to get media and 
> other sounds.
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alonzo" <mariachiac at aim.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 12:13 PM
> Subject: intro and questions
> 
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > My name is Alonzo. I'm from Texas and attend TexasA.M   in Corpus
> > Christi. I am currently using Fc9 and am new to linux. I'm not totally
> > new, but I'm just barely getting back into linux after using  four it
> > years ago.
> >
> > My computer is anAMD64 with a gig of ram. I have installed the 32 bit
> > version of Fedora with speakup motified. I'm wanting to use speakup, but
> > just had a few questions before I do so.
> > I Also have a laptop running ubuntu. So if it would be easier to convert
> > my laptop to Fedora, then I can do that as well. I just need input.
> >
> >
> > My questions are the following for fedora:
> > 1. When using the speakup connector, for ttsynth, I just coppy the make
> > file into /usr/local/bin/
> > then creat an alias to start speak up.
> >
> > 2. When I edit the file grub.conf I beleive it's in /boot. To specify
> > the software speech at boot do I just scroll to the end of the file and
> > type speakup_synth=sftsynth then restart the computer and hope to have
> > speech at boot time?
> >
> > questions not related to speakup:
> > 1 When using the graphical end of Fedora in Gnome, I'm unable to hear
> > sound and speech at the same time. That is, if I play try listening to
> > an mp3, I would have to kill speech before hearing music. I tried
> > following the instructions to get espeak to work along side orca on the
> > wiki page, but it does not work. please advise on that as well.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Alonzo
> >
> > note:
> > I can be reached the following ways
> > msn: mariachiac at aim.com
> > aim: mariachiac
> >
> > If the issues stated above are better solved by phone, then I can
> > provide that information as well.
> >
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