I am thinking of switching from Ubuntu to Fedora as I am concerned Graphical Web browsing is still in its early stages and maty need Speakup if I want any kind of access to web pages as I am still a fair newby to Linux. I have downloaded the Speakup modified Fedora but what I would like to know is can I use software speech if I install it without a hardware synthesiser? I know to do an eyes free installation and get all the bennifits of bootup and shut down messages it requires a hardware synth but if I don't have one or in my case I have lost what goes into the COM 2 port or whatever it is called in Linux, can I still run Speakup if I get the modified Fedora installed by a Sighted person ie if someone at one of the LUGs I attend installs it for me? I ask because this week I might be attending a meeting in Birstall which is where one of the LUGs I attend is. I text someone who uses Fedora with my questions but she might be busy as she still hasn't got back to me on my latest messages and not being Visually Impaired she might not know the answer anyway as she mo9stly uses the KDE environment. Hope someone can answer my question about the modified Fedora as I tried to run Lynx with Orca from the Gnome terminal but I had problems tracking the text on pages as it seems to repeat lines so far down pages so it tries to read other stuff it has already read and I didn't have much luck with w3m as the hotkeys don't seem to be verry clear or they are assigned for a Japaneese rather than UK keyboard and I seemed unable to enter forms using it because when I typed in the text field it tried to activate commands.
