Anyone thought about raspberry pie?

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
I have just gotten speakup talking on an arm based netbook called the 
webbook.
It runs Ubuntu, but not quite the standard version.
Espeak kind of works, but I have issues with the audio device on this 
particular machine.
Regards, Willem


On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Robert cole wrote:

> I heard about the Raspberry Pi probably six months ago (estimating) on the 
> Linux Action Show. If I am able, I definitely want to pick one (or more) up 
> when they are shipped in cases.
>
> It is definitely something worth looking into.
>
> I told my wife (who doesn't know much about tech) that I was going to buy a 
> Raspberry Pi, and she said, "Why do you want to eat a raspberry pie?" I love 
> getting her with tech things like that. <smile>
>
> On 02/21/2012 08:32 AM, John Heim wrote:
>> 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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