-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 i. You've made a good choice by going with slackware. If you have any of the supported synthesizers as listed at www.linux-speakup.org, you could simply add speakup_synth=xxx to your lilo append line, where xxx is the speakup designation for your speech synth, so you don't need to be forced to access a gnu/linux system remotely anymore. In fact, if you have any of the supported hardware synths, you can have speech from the get go during your entire installation. When the cd-rom boots, just type at the boot prompt: speakup.s speakup_synth=xxx , and your synth should start speaking away everything on screen. Note that softsynth cannot be used for getting speech during the install, and you can't add it to your lilo append line as described above, until you install flite, speech dispatcher, and speechdup as described below. Again, replace xxx as appropriate. As for using a softsynth, I have not done this myself yet, however, here's what I know. The softsynth device is not a synth itself, but is rather an interface that a softsynth would use to communicate with speakup. From what I know, you need to get the flite software synth installed, and you also need speech dispatcher, and speechdup from http://www.freebsoft.org. Speech dispatcher, flite, and speechdup should have no problem running on the configurations your system admin mentions. As for the doubletalk pci, this is not supported by speakup yet. Hth, and I hope someone else will chime in with whatever I left out. Greg P.S. Have a look at the 2 speakup docs in the root directory of the first slackware cd. On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:51:56AM -0600, Lorne Webber wrote: - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBL4Gm7s9z/XlyUyARAjoqAKCy36Dcs3hb1t8F0KsbDlh9TTe8jgCbB5Lj pmTPF5bCG138pgJtAsk4yS4= =zE0V -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
