Installing Slackware Without Hardware Synthesizer

[Haden Pike]

Thanks for the reply. You’ve certainly given me some ideas and things to think about.

Haden Pike
Computer Science
University of Kentucky
Class of 2016



> On Feb 29, 2016, at 8:42 PM, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote:
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> Not with slackware 14.1 and I suspect not with slackware_current either but you could write volkerdi at slackware.com and ask what the accessibility status is of slackware_current there may be a software speech capability in it by now but I doubt it.  I've read no news on this from slackware.com on their website and I suppose it's possible slackware.com could have given up on providing accessibility but I haven't read that either so don't quote me on that.  If slackware ever gets to a point it can work with a kickstart file though maybe many more things will become possible.
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> One website I read a while back had instructions for installing emacspeak as a screen reader environment and making a talking login prompt.
> Slackware does have an initialization file where boot up commands can be put once an iso gets put on a hard drive opened up edited then burnt to dvd again but you'd have to have commands you could put into it to get speech going.  I don't know if yasr can run a sound card, but if it can and you can come up with the commands that might be a possibility. Other thing you might try is searching slackbuilds.org for kickstart and see if anyone made a script to build it on slackware.
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> On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, Haden Pike wrote:
> 
>> Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:32:22
>> From: Haden Pike <haden.pike at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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>> To: speakup at linux-speakup.org
>> Subject: Installing Slackware Without Hardware Synthesizer
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I do not have a hardware synthesizer. Do I have any other options for performing an install of Slackware that do not involve me finding a sighted person to install it for me?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Haden Pike
>> Computer Science
>> University of Kentucky
>> Class of 2016
>> 
>> 
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