speakup is nice

[Tyler Littlefield]

>Speakup is compiled into the kernal,...
it can also be compiled as modules.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Homuth" <james at the-jdh.com>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:53 PM
Subject: RE: speakup is nice


> To my knowledge, it does not. Speakup is compiled into the kernal, and 
> going
> on what little information Gentoo has on its website, only works with a
> hardware synth. Otherwise I'd definitely take that route.
>
> -----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 5:50 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: speakup is nice
>
> Except I thought that gentoo disc didn't include a software synth for
> speakup, or am I wrong?
>
> As for whether you could install gentoo using GRML, I don't know for sure,
> but when I looked at gentoo the installation process had no real gentoo
> specific requirement for the liveCD used (except for the packages, docs 
> and
> stage file which could be got from the internet). So I guess that whilst 
> it
> may not be officially supported you might be able to do an install of 
> gentoo
> using GRML if you can get an internet connection whilst using GRML.
>
> If anyone knows more about this, may be you could give more detail.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 15:31 -0600, Garrett Klein wrote:
>> 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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