Some beginners questions

[lutz kaiser]

Hi Erik and List

yes espeakup can speak german too.
As Root:
nano /etc/default/espeakup< enter>
voice=de

Then ctrl+x "j" and Enter should do it.

Reboot and enjoy.

I cant say anything to Laptoplayouts


greatings
Lutz


Am 01.12.2011 14:09, schrieb Eric Scheibler:
> Hello,
>
> I started to use speakup under Debian Squeeze and I have a few beginners
> questions.
>
> If I move up the cursor one line with speakup + u, how can I jump to the
> beginning or end of the line? At the moment I stand somewhere and must
> search the beginning by pressing speakup + j until I'am there.
>
> Is it possible to turn on the word echo, so that speakup reads the
> current word after pressing space?
>
> At the moment all non letters are pronounced in english. Is there a
> translated version of the file i18n/characters for other languages
> especially for german? If not does someone work on it?
>
> I read your documentation file and found the list of shortcuts to
> control speakup. I'am a laptop user and sadly I only could find the key
> bindings for the desktop layout. I also tried speakups help system but
> the key listing is incomplete. Could someone tell me the laptop key
> bindings for the following commands?
> 1. cursor tracking mode (numpad *)
> 2. mark (/) for cut and paste
>
> I also want to change the mapping of some keys. But I can't find the
> file speakupmap.map in the directory
> /usr/src/linux-<version_number>/drivers/char/speakup/. I didn't compiled
> speakup into the kernel myself but use modprobe to activate it (Debian
> Squeeze with kernel 3.0.0). Is there a method to do the key mapping anyway?
>
> I tried to install the extra package speakup-tools but I got the
> following error message:
> [ 8119.984075] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation
> [ 8120.000189] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -115
> What does this mean?
>
> Thanks for help
> Best regards
> Eric
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-- 
viele Grüße
Lutz