Unix

[james collins]

thanks for the response. i am going to look into YASR, i don't know  
but i think i tried voiceover, and i didn't like how it changed the  
gui interface. i wanted a screen reader just for terminal, and to fool  
around with. i actually have a doubletalk speech synthesizer which i  
was using with ms dos. it stopped working and i am going to send the  
synthesizer to rc systems inc. to have it tested. from what i read  
speakup supported the doubletalk pc/lt. but i guess i can't use  
speakup. i had been reading in the doubltalk documentation that you  
could make the synthesizer speak spanish and you could even develop  
your own programs that incorporated speech, and you could actually  
program the tone generator in the doubletalk. that is the kind of  
thing i am interested in.
On Jul 28, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Michael Whapples wrote:

> Hello,
> I don't think you will get speakup working on MacOS (whatever  
> version you are using). Speakup is  built for the linux kernel and  
> so is quite specific to linux (it won't work on many other unix  
> systems eg. solaris, freebsd, etc). The only way I can imagine you  
> will get speakup working is to install linux on the Mac (may it be  
> either as a dual boot or to replace MacOS), but I don't think that  
> is what you wanted.
>
> Anyway something which might help you, there are a few other screen  
> readers for unix text terminals, the one which comes to mind is YASR  
> which I think works on a number of different unix systems (it works  
> on other systems as it doesn't integrate so tightly with the systems  
> kernel). Another alternative, although more orientated for Braille  
> display support is brltty.
>
> As suggested by Hermann, if your Mac is running Leopard then why not  
> use voiceover, unless you are planning to move to linux.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On -10/01/37 20:59, james collins wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am a speakup newbie. I own a MacBook pro laptop running mac os x  
>> 10.5.7 I think. I was just wondering if I could use speakup with  
>> this computer, from what I know the mac os is a version of unix. I  
>> want to use speakup at the command line, there is a program called  
>> terminal on my laptop and when I open it it opens a unix shell I  
>> think. I just wondered if I could configure speakup to work on my  
>> laptop or do I have to be running Linux, also I wondered if there  
>> is a big difference between Linux and unix. Any help would be  
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>
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