Anyone thought about raspberry pie?

[John Heim]

Speakup works on the Geode by NSC.  That's the chip in my Soekris 4801.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: Anyone thought about raspberry pie?


I think you are a bit to optomistic. Because speakup works on Debian or
arch doesn't mean that it'll work on arm. It's a different architecture.
Just figured I'd throw that out there.
On 2/20/2012 5:52 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
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