Re: has anyone got emmaubuntus talking?

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If dyslectics and the totally blind can't bridge through installation with
a screen reader talking google tts is pointless.



Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)

.

On Sun, 12 Mar 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> if it uses google tts then its a damn good tts
> On 3/11/2023 11:41 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > Oh dear, gspeech is google speech and any emmaubuntus system has to be
> > online at all times to use it and start it.  That's an unacceptable
> > security vulnerability here.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> > defense of liberty:
> >   soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
> >
> > .
> >
> > On Sun, 12 Mar 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >
> >> Plus, there are Ubuntu variants for XFCE(Xubuntu) and LXDE(Lubuntu)
> >> and last I checked, there were XFCE and LXDE variants of Debian CD1
> >> and the Debian Netinstaller featured LXDE and XFCE alongside Gnome,
> >> KDE, and Mate on the list of options at the install additional
> >> software step.
> >>
> >> Presumably, other major distros have options, either at time of
> >> downloading the iso, time of installation, or after installing the
> >> system, to setup XFCE, LXDE, LXQT, or one of the many stand-alone
> >> window managers.
> >>
> >> On 3/12/23, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> are you really sure it's necessary to use a specialized Linux
> >>> distribution just because of the computer's age?
> >>>
> >>> I mean, Linux is pretty lightweight even on the flagship distros, in
> >>> most cases, you're completely fine with them and can benefit from their
> >>> accessibility support.
> >>>
> >>> I've recently installed Ubuntu Mate 22.04 64-bit on my cca. 15 years old
> >>> laptop, and I was very pleased with the experience.
> >>>
> >>> Indeed, it was not as lightning as my current-one, though honestly, I
> >>> had a feeling most of the delay came actually from the physical
> >>> keyboard, which is very sturdy compared to today's standards, and takes
> >>> quite an effort to type on.
> >>>
> >>> But even with this slowdown, the experience was still quite fluent.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Best regards
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Rastislav
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> D?a 12. 3. 2023 o 0:31 Linux for blind general discussion nap?sal(a):
> >>>> I downloaded the latest release.  It has espeak-ng on it but doesn't have
> >>>> orca.  I couldn't figure out how to get espeakup-ng to come up on boot so
> >>>> I'd have a talking install at least.
> >>>> For those that don't yet know emmaubuntus is a distribution aimed at
> >>>> under-powered and refurbished machines stuff that would otherwise end up
> >>>> in the land fills.  It's for beginners to linux and the only reason I'm
> >>>> doing anything with it at all is to possibly help a remote sighted person
> >>>> migrate one or more old windows machines to this version of linux and she
> >>>> hasn't used linux yet.  It offers xfce and lxqt as desktops.  If orca
> >>>> isn't in the repository being used it ought to get in the repository so
> >>>> the desktops get accessible for screen reader users.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> >>>> defense of liberty:
> >>>>    soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> >>>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
> >>>>
> >>>> .
> >>>>
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