On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:36:50AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote: >> Well, forget etch, but look at lenny which should be released soon, what I should probably have said: etch has brltty in the installer and in aptitude, but since I don't use it, I don't know if it contains speakup or orca. I don't think it does, but someone can correct me, I think it just has brltty. Lenny has speakup, orca, brltty and a braille installer. >> is missing? >> - orca >> - brltty >> - speakup modules >> All in aptitude ready to go. >> > Well, the obvious thing that's missing is an already compiled kernel > image > which includes Speakup. Unless I'm mistaken, the Speakup modules > package is > just source. You still have to compile the modules yourself. If they > were already compiled so that installing them would set up speech for > you, that > would be great. Use module-assistent, have you installed speakup-doc and read the installation notes for debian? Works fine for me, and very easy to do. No need to build a kernel from source, but it won't build the synth into the kernel just as modules. > Even after you compile the modules, you still have to adjust your boot > configuration to start Speakup with what synth you want. True I guess, but you can modprobe it then edit /etc/modules. I only use software speech, so not sure how you would tell it what port your synth is on, if you are using modprobe and your synth driver is built as a module... -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ <d.dalton at iinet.net.au>
