speakup is nice

[James Homuth]

I stand corrected, then. Question, though, regarding GRML. Do you have the
option of installing any variation of Linux, or is it limitted to Debian or
grml? I have a particular interest in a slightly less mainstream version of
Linux, specificly Gentoo, which is my primary reason for asking. Though
admittedly, a secondary reason to it is curiosity. 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Michael Whapples
Sent: January 28, 2009 12:26 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: RE: speakup is nice

You are wrong in believing that speakup requires a software synth to install
linux, have a look at the GRML distro (www.grml.org). GRML (I am always
referring to the full version of GRML when I say GRML, not GRML medium or
small which I will always specify if I am referring to these cut down
versions) I find is wonderful for those of us who want to use speakup on a
LiveCD without any hardware synth. To use GRML with software speech just
enter:
grml swspeak
at the boot prompt and then when you get the voice message saying booting
finished (I find it can say this a couple of seconds before booting really
has finished, so you may wish to just wait a few seconds) you just need to
enter the command:
swspeak
and you will have speakup with software speech output (providing your sound
card is detected correctly but this is a problem for any software synth
output, even orca can't solve that). If you want to install to hard disk
then you can use grml2hd or grml-debootstrap (grml-debootstrap is to install
debian instead of GRML).

The computer I am using here has speakup with software speech output, it
also has gnome and orca installed and I did all this installation with
software speech (speakup for the install process). Also it is a laptop and I
can take it anywhere (with no other hardware) and use speakup or orca
without problems.

I will admit distros including speakup with software speech output during
install are rare and this is why I like GRML so much, the ability to have
linux on CD which I can insert into any computer and use speakup with a
software synth.

I will just explain one comment I made earlier. I said about use GRML full
version, this is because GRML medium and small do not include any
accessibility features (IE. no speakup or brltty). Only the full version
have the accessibility software.

Hope this helps

Michael Whapples
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 10:15 -0500, James Homuth wrote:
> Not my impression at all. I am aware it can. However, not to install 
> the software. And not to install Linux speakup-enabled. That requires 
> a hardware synth for at least that process. Again, this is so far as 
> I'm aware. Which is as said, the drawback to my already not having 
> installed it at least until I can install a desktop interface.
> 


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