Well, Speakup is a patch to the kernel, so it's not like you go get an application and run it. Having said that there are installation disks that include Speakup for Debian, Red Hat, and Slackware on the Speakup site. These give you a talking installation of Linux. Once installed, with a kernel patched with Speakup, you just need to modprobe for your synth -- with the newest CVS Speakup vesion. Alternatively, you can compile the driver for your synth into the kernel and have speech come up through an append line in lilo or grub. kevin writes: > From: "kevin" <kjsisco at rcn.com> > > ah I see. And would any special configurations have to be made or would it > recognize any external device automaticly. It looks like it would have to > be manually configured, but I could be wrong. > Kevin > email: > kjsisco at rcn.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 1:39 PM > Subject: Re: speakup question? > > > > At the present time, hardware speech is the only way to go. That > > would include internal synthesisers like the double talk or Accent PC > > plus the usual array of exter serial synths. Don't think they ever > > got the JTripple talk to go though. > > > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:29:56PM -0400, kevin wrote: > > > Hello I have a question about the speakup project. I am verry familear > with the alsa drivers because I helped with the release of 9.1, but I am > unclear on some things. Does the screen reader use it's own internal > synthesizer? Does one have to be attached? I was not informed on this > point. > > > Kevin > > > email: > > > kjsisco at rcn.com > > > > -- > > HolmesGrown Solutions > > The best solutions for the best price! > > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina at rednote.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://accessibility.freestandards.org