Since jaws is so expensive, I cant afford it, but you can download mIRC and copy the entire file to your mirc folder then set up the speech agent, then go to help and find the play command, set a play command for the file with the milliseconds delay to suit your taste, then you can play any text to be read aloud in mirc, -----Original Message----- From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Herzog Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 5:17 PM To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: Re: the linux cookbook Another way is to tape record the selected sections of the cookbook, and then play them back to yourself as you try the stuff. It's my way. I just set Jaws really slow so I can follow the audio, without having to start and stop the recorder too often. Wil Josh wrote: > Hi, > > wow I did not know I could read the linux cookbook online until I did a > google search for it and found it online. But here's a problem I need to > overcome, and if anyone has already overcome this being blind, can you > share how you did it? Ok, so for me to practically use this cookbook, I > will need to: > *be able to somehow read the book and then go to my computer and follow > the directions. > so I would need two computers? one to read the book on, and another to > have grml Linux on. or > *have a braille copy of the Linux cookbook so I therefore only need one > computer and can read the braille copy to refer back to. > > Josh > > email: jkenn337@xxxxxxxxx > msn: kenn6498ku@xxxxxxxxxxx > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list