speakup is nice

[Garrett Klein]

Jamews,

You can install Gentoo using the 2007.0 live CD. It's using the old
speakup so just type
speakup_synth=xxxx or
gentoo speakup_synth=xxxx
at the boot prompt.

Hth,
Garrett

James Homuth wrote:
> 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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