On the subject of debian, does debian include speakup if you just downloaded the official iso images? Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry D. Cudney" <terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 6:39 AM Subject: Re: Need help getting debian installation media speaking > Hi Michael and everyone, > > The best speakup-enabled Debian installer that I've seen so far is at: > > http://people.debian.org/~shane/netinst-speakup/ > > Thanks Shane! > > The CD image that I got there was from January 27/05. > > Boot with the CD, when the disk stops spinning type: > > speakup speakup_synth=<your synth> > > and it installs everything you want from the net. > > Hope this helps, Debian is a great OS. > > --terry > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:13:46AM -0000, Michael Whapples wrote: > > Hello, > > I need some help getting Debian sarge installed. I believed that debian now > > has speakup included in the main distro, but when I tried starting it with > > the speakup_synth parameter, it never spoke. So I tried the boot floppies > > from the speakup website, which worked, except my computer stopped > > responding to the keyboard when I loaded the first disk, but everything > > else was ready for the next disk. I tried doing things like disable usb > > support, but no success. So I tried the CD image from the speakup website, > > but I could not get speakup talking with that. Can anyone help with this? > > If not then I will look at other distributions, but the others seem to have > > their own problems, gentoo software speech doesn't seem to work well and > > slackware requires most programs which will be used to be manually built > > from source. I don't intend to use fedora, there seems to be too many > > problems when it is updated because speakup is not in the standard > > distribution. > > From > > Mike > > "An optimist is someone who has never had much experience" > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Name: Terry D. Cudney > Phone: (705) 422-0039 > E-mail: terry at wasaga.dyns.net > > Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... > having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool. > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
