Anyone thought about raspberry pie?

[Buddy Brannan]

Hi,

Yes, Arm is a different architecture, but that doesn't mean Speakup won't compile for it. Doesn't mean it will, but it seems to me that it should. Well, for $35, I reckon a bunch of us can get them and play around with them, anyway. I'm game. And, speak should work, I mean, they got it to work on Android, and most of those devices are Arm-based. 
--
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY



On Feb 20, 2012, at 7:52 PM, Kyle wrote:

> From the website:
> 
> What Linux distros will be supported at launch?
> 
> Fedora, Debian and ArchLinux will be supported from the start. We hope to see support from other distros later. (Because of issues with newer releases of Ubuntu and the ARM processor we are using, Ubuntu can’t commit to support Raspberry Pi at the moment.) You will be able to download distro images from us as soon as the Raspberry Pi is released, and we will also be selling pre-loaded SD cards shortly after release.
> 
> So if Arch and Debian are supported, Speakup modules or kernels compiled with Speakup should run without issues. Some software speech synthesizers may have memory issues, but eSpeak is sure to run, as it has an extremely low memory requirement.
> 
> On a side note, I really want one of these things , and will likely purchase one once the cases are available. Then I can try to get Talking Arch running on it. I also wonder how easy it would be to get bluetooth running on something like this. It looks like it would pair well with a bluetooth keyboard and become a nice little portable computer. This looks more and more like a fun little project to work on for very little money. And with the right software, it will work better than most of those notetaker thingies that still cost 100 times as much as this baby, and that some people still buy for some reason. Smile.
> ~Kyle
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup