-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've read the howto you describe 6 or 7 years ago. At the time, all it really talked about was a Polish-specific distro of debian. I personally found that information interesting, but not really useful. Perhaps that howto has changed since that time. As for Michal's question, I don't have an answer for you, I certainly never recall seeing a /proc/speakup/lang file at any time in speakup, perhaps this is something specific to the apollo driver. I do have speakup /proc/speakup/characters, and /proc/speakup/chartab modified to work with my bns in Polish. I however decided not to release these mods, because they aren't perfect. The main problem is that the Polish charset implemented by the bns as of the Sept. 20, 2000 ver a revision seems to be a mix of mostly cp1250, together with some of cp852. What that means in terms of using it in speechbox mode with speakup, is that there are some letters that have 2-3 ASCII values mapped to the same letter. When listening to the bns, it's possible for me to understand what it's saying, but that took some getting used to, since the pronunciation definitely isn't what it should be, because of the previously described issue. As for necessary modifications to debian itself, I created a Polish-specific user for me on the system, and put the following into the user's $HOME/.bash_profile: export LANGUAGE=pl_PL export LANG=pl_PL echo 12 >/proc/speakup/rate cat $HOME/chartab >/proc/speakup/chartab cat $HOME/characters >/proc/speakup/characters The first 2 lines set the locale to Polish. The 3rd line slows down the rate from what I use when using the bns in English. The last 2 lines put my speakup modifications into place, which are stored in the user's $HOME directory of course. If anyone else here has Polish as a second language on their bns, and is interested in playing or improving my speakup mods, let me know, and I'll make those files available. Hth somewhat. Greg On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:15:27AM -0800, Gaijin wrote: > Hello, > On your system, in the /usr/doc in the HOWTO directory (I think > Debian still calls it HOWTOs) there will be a Polish-HOWTO. Type" > > $ locate Polish-HOWTO > > > ...to see where it is. You can also try: > > $ cd /usr/doc/*HOWTO* <TAB><ENTER> > $ less Polish* <TAB><ENTER> > > ...and it will sho you the contents of the Polish-HOWTO file. I cannot > read the file as it is written in Polish and do not know what it > contains, but maybe it will help, or show you someone who can help. > Good luck. > > Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHOKZ77s9z/XlyUyARArk9AJwJeRRfqhmPMdwqCstzkgzAqbFwNQCZARnW 1UfoTVvmYD+hWjgNWNRWu7E= =Q4eH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
