Hi, Go ahead with the software synth howto. As you say the docs is a little outdated. Do you have speakup running using software speech under fedora c2? If so, I would like to have the details, howto or no howto. Regards, Willem On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, David Bruzos wrote: > > Hello everyone: > This is my first time posting to this mailing list. I have come here many times before to find info about Linux and > Speakup. I have a running system largely due to the existence of this list. So, first, I like to thank the people that > organize it and everyone involved in Speakup for their work. Kirk is the man! > > Last week I searched through the archives for hours to find out how to configure my software synth. I saw, among other > things that there are no howtos for discribing this process and that most of the documentation is somewhat outdated. > Anyway, it would have been much earier for me to setup software speech if there would have been an organized guide or > howto, that explains how to do it... I am sure that this is no news to most people in this list! > > So, I figured that now that I know how to do it, I can put together such a document. In fact, I would like to > contribute by doing this. I can not program well enough to improve speakup, but I could help out with the docs. I > would like to write a general Linux/Speakup howto, but I can not promise that I can finish something like that any time > soon. So, the software synth thing is a better short term goal. I am a full-time student at the University of North > Florida and soon to be a Dad, so time might be a problem in the > comming weeks... > > I would like to know what other mailing list members think about this. Are there some reasons why I should not do this? > Are there other people working on a similar project? Anywthing is cool. Oh, I am also a Linux newbey, so I might ask > simple questions sometimes... > > I am 23 years old and totally blind, so speakup is very important for me. I have been using Linux for about one year > and used Windows/jfw before that. I started with Fedora Core 1 and now use > Fedora Core 2 and Mandrake 10 as well. The reason for Mandrake is so that I can help my father when required... > > Thanx! > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
