Chris, What is espeek I have never heard of it and how does one get it to work? Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Norman" <cnorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 6:02 PM Subject: Re: General questions from someone who's never used Speakup... > 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 at the-jdh.com> > 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 >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
