Patching speakup in to Easy peazy?

[Georgina Joyce]

Hi

I haven't used Easy Peazy.  But I use a netbook.  I've had Ubuntu on an
Asus eeepc 701 and now on an Acer Aspire One.  Speakup will work quite
well on these machines using espeak.  However, you will not get speach
output right from boot up to shutdown as we did in the early days.  You
could still do it sooner if you could use a hardware synth but that's
not an option on a netbook.  Unless there's a netbook with a serial
port.

So you can still get speech before login and some shutdown routines
spoken but they're restricted to when the soundcard driver is loaded and
functional.  But all the boot up messages are available to read after
boot up, if you require.

All you need to do is search the ubuntu archives for the speakup
packages and install them.  I don't have an ubuntu system here to look
for you.  But it's as simple as:

# apt-cache search speakup | less
# apt-cache search espeakup
# apt-get install <speakup-package>
# apt-get install <espeakup>
I suggest piping speakup search results because if ubuntu packages are
as diverse as debian's they'll be more than a screen full.

Or alternatively, you could follow Tony's "Roll your own vinux"
instructions concerning installing speakup.  This involves installing
git and making a cloan of the current speakup source.  Building and
installing.

HTH



On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 23:11 +0100, Jennifer wrote:
> Hey. I'm new to the list and fairly new to Linux. I've never re-compiled a kernel in my life but really want to be able to get messages from boot up to shutdown. I want to do this for a version of Ubuntu optimized for NetBooks. I currently have no hardware synthesizer, is this necessary in order to achieve speech output? Also will there be any problems because I am using a NetBook and is there any specific documentation relating to UBUNTU that I should read instead of a more general guide?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Jen!
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