First, and most important, welcome! The short answer to your question is very simple. Speakup works very, very well. Now, the somewhat longer answers. You will be happiest with Speakup if you use a hardware speech synthesizer. Most such are supported by Speakup, but not all. So, check the Speakup home page: http://www.linux-speakup.org Of course, you can also use software speech both instead of and in addition to hardware speech--though you wouldn't do so at the same time, needless to say. And, you can certainly also have emacspeak and any number of other applications working on the same Linux system. You should not, however, install Red Hat 9 because it is old and no longer supported. The Red Hat Corporation has created Fedora Core as the successor to its free Linux builds. Fedora Core 3 will be released next week, but read further for more information. On the Speakup home page we maintain something called the Speakup Modified Fedora Distribution. This is a Fedora Core with some important additions. The most important addition is Speakup. It's the easiest way to get a Fedora-type Linux installation with Speakup on your computer. And, you can even install it all without sighted assistance. For more information on how to do that, read our installation HOWTO which you'll find at this address: http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/fedora/HOWTO_INSTALL.html The Speakup Modified Fedora Distribution home page is at: http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/fedora/ Once Red Hat releases Fedora Core 3, we will begin working on creating the Speakup Modified distribution. But, if you can't wait, you can certainly install the current version and upgrade later. Ahmed writes: > Hi Folks! > I am new member to this mailing list! > I am totally blind and I am doing BSC Computer Science Degree in Westminster University in UK. I have got a few questions about Speakup speech programme with Linux! > First of all, I have only used Unix OS through a telnet programme such as SSH Client and I do programme under Unix as part of my Degree! > Secondly I heard that there is a speech programme called Speakup long time but I have never used it! Because I get use to the Window OS using Jaws as my screen Reading programme! > Thirdly, I have decided to change my OS on my Laptop from Window2K to Linux RedHat 9. > So my questions is as follows! > how does Speakup programme work with Red Hat 9? Bearing in mind that I have an external DecTalk express synthesiser. Would it work with the above external synthesiser.?If yes is it so difficult to configure it? > Can I install the Speakup and Emacspeak in one computer? If yes how? I read about Jupiter Speech System for Linux in console mode,. Has anyone tried the Jupiter Speech System? If yes how does he/she find it? > At last but most importantly thank you very much and I look forward to your replies. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
