Hi James... Sorry you couldn't get the skype plugin to work. There's nothing wrong with using 2 operatiing systems. I mostly use Ubuntu because it's a much better operating system than windows but when I need to scan text I use windows because I can't find decent OCR software for Linux. I have never installed speakup but I noticed that no one responded to your email yet so I did a few google searches for you. By typing "how do you install speakup for ubuntu" I found some nice articles including this one. Click on the link to go to it. http://sites.skaccess.com/speakup/guide/patch-and-compile-kernel I also googled "speakup software synthesizer" and found this article .http://www.freebsoft.org/doc/speechd-up/speechd-up_1.html?? I am sure there are many more articles on the net. I hope this helps. Charlie --- On Thu, 1/29/09, James & Nash <james.austin1984 at googlemail.com> wrote: From: James & Nash <james.austin1984@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Hello and qeustion about SpeakUp To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 2:27 AM Hello. My name is James and I have just joined ths list. I hope I will learn a lot and hopefully contribute in time. Am I correct in thinking that there is a software synthesizer for Speak UP and that you can have both Speak Up and Orca running on the same system? If so, how would I go about installing Speak Up in Ubuntu and does this mean that I could have speech at start up and in every part of Linux with both Screen Readers? Thanks James _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
