I'd start out with GRML, It speaks out of the box, with a boot line like: grml swspeak lang=uk keyboard=uk You can install that. When you've gotten used to it, I'd recommend something like Fedora, it can be installed with braille or remotely, and you can get it speaking with ESpeak quite easily. HTH, Chris Norman <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com --> ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Homuth" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 11:52 PM Subject: General questions from someone who's never used Speakup... >I do have linux experience, though not running it off my own machine, > since until recently I'd been unaware of anything remotely decent so > far as text-to-speech capabilities for it. What I'd like to know, > however, is what kind of feedback/configurability is offered with the > current version of Speakup? I should probably point out that, coming > from Windows, I'm probably going to end up comparing this with > whatever expectations I have after using JAWS and/or Window Eyes. > I've been tossing around the idea of finding a spare machine just to > fiddle around with linux and check out Speakup, at the very least, > but I like to know what I'm getting into before I go and jump in with > both feet. If anyone knows where I can get my hands on something like > a demo of the program in action, or can maybe tell me what their > experience with Speakup has been like, that'd be awesome. Email me on > or off list, whichever. > > James > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
