You can locat lots of Linux programs by going to: http://freshmeat.net . Greg On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 06:45:15PM -0100, Gordon Smith wrote: > Hi Frank. I am at a loss then to know how to specify a speech synthesizer > for SuSE to use. When I installed it, it auto-detected my Braille > terminal, but nothing else. I can find only extremely poor documentation > related to SuSE B-Linux, and no mention of speech synthesis anywhere. If > you could give me a clue where to follow this up, I will be happy to do so, > and very grateful. I think I'm going to have to stick with SuSE, as > Slackware will not see my additional hard disks or I/O controller. I also > have no idea where to locate Braille TTY, so I'm sort of stuck. I > appreciate what you say about nobody else around here using SuSE, guess I'm > on my own with that, <smile>. Thanks anyway. > > At 08:28 16/09/01 -0400, Frank Carmickle said: > > >Your supposed to be able to specify the synth that you have with the > >braille program the comes with suse. Like I said before we wouldn't know how > >to do that around here most likely. > > > >If you are sticking with suse for the braille terminal program know that > >braille tty is supposed to be a better program then that which ships with > >suse. > > > >On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Gordon Smith wrote: > > > > > At 12:21 16/09/01 +0100, Saqib Shaikh said: > > > >I could be missing the point here, but if you have a braille display why > > > >don't you use SuSE-BLinux? This would give you braille support and speech > > > >support also. > > > > > > > > > It doesn't give me speech, as my speech synthesizer is not part of my > > > Braille display. If it were, then I'd have no problem. As I say, if I > > > could get a kernel compiled for SuSE, including Speakup, then problem > > > solved. But Braille alone is just too slow. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Kind regards, Gordon Smith. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > "mailto:Gordon Smith <gordon at tft-bbs.co.uk" > > > "mailto:Gordon Smith <07932634539 at one2one.net" > > > http://www.tft-bbs.co.uk> > > > ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.co.uk > > > ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.com > > > ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.org.uk > > > > > > ICQ: 23973878 > > > MSN Messenger: gordon at tft-bbs.co.uk > > > > > > Tel.: +44 7932 634 539 > > > Fax.: +44 1642 357 754 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > >-- > > Frank Carmickle > >phone: 412 761-9568 > >email: frankiec at dryrose.com > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > Kind regards, Gordon Smith. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > "mailto:Gordon Smith <gordon at tft-bbs.co.uk" > "mailto:Gordon Smith <07932634539 at one2one.net" > http://www.tft-bbs.co.uk> > ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.co.uk > ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.com > ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.org.uk > > ICQ: 23973878 > MSN Messenger: gordon at tft-bbs.co.uk > > Tel.: +44 7932 634 539 > Fax.: +44 1642 357 754 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup