Debian upgrade to Jessie

[John G Heim]

Have you tried using software speech on your machine? I would be very 
surprised if it really is too slow. I used to have a laptop with a 
original Pentium processor and 56Mb of ram. That is not a typo, 56Mb of 
ram. Speakup with software speech ran fine. I used to walk around my 
house streaming the audio portion of TV shows on it. I also have a 
machine that is the mid-90s equivalent of a raspberry pi. This machine 
has a 486 processor and 256Mb of ram. It's a Soekris 4801 in case you're 
curious. Anyway, it runs speakup with software speech just fine.


I guess it might depend on what else you are doing on your machine. But 
if your machine is slow, I would doubt that the problem is primarily 
with software speech.

On 05/18/2015 08:20 PM, Tom Fowle wrote:
> Thanks all for various comments.
> I did read the wikki but didn't seem to find anything about speakup.
> which
> is my only serious interest in screen readers for now.
> Yes use brltty also but unfortunately brltty's speech system doesn't
> support
> the doubletalk.
> My box is too slow for software speech unless I want a lot of naps.
>
> I believe running version 3.2.60-1+deb7u3
>
>
> Looks like my cowardly best bet is to wait till more experienced users
> have
> a go.
> Since I don't care about multiple desktops only reason to upgrade
> appears
> to be so as not to get behind the upgrades and eventually have to
> entirely
> reinstall.
> Thanks
>    Tom Fowle
>    wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm
>
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2015, at 12:21 AM, Mike Ray wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I did a full net install of Debian Jessie rather than upgrade Wheezy to
>> Jessie to Wheezy because Jessie gives alternative desktops.
>>
>> I picked the Mate desktop and it works very well, and accessibility is
>> excellent.
>>
>> Debian Jessie now includes Emacspeak in the repos, so no need to build
>> it from source.
>>
>> I have found no big accessibility problems.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On 18/05/2015 03:41, acollins at icsmail.net wrote:
>>> Hi Tom.  I would suggest you test Jessie with a live cd, and if that
>>> works, then upgrade.
>>>
>>> Gene Collins
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Michael A. Ray
>> Analyst/Programmer
>> Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
>>
>> "In the beginning there was Debian, and Ubuntu was without form, and
>> void"
>>
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>>
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