Hello, I don't think you will get speakup working on MacOS (whatever version you are using). Speakup is built for the linux kernel and so is quite specific to linux (it won't work on many other unix systems eg. solaris, freebsd, etc). The only way I can imagine you will get speakup working is to install linux on the Mac (may it be either as a dual boot or to replace MacOS), but I don't think that is what you wanted. Anyway something which might help you, there are a few other screen readers for unix text terminals, the one which comes to mind is YASR which I think works on a number of different unix systems (it works on other systems as it doesn't integrate so tightly with the systems kernel). Another alternative, although more orientated for Braille display support is brltty. As suggested by Hermann, if your Mac is running Leopard then why not use voiceover, unless you are planning to move to linux. Michael Whapples On -10/01/37 20:59, james collins wrote: > Hello, > I am a speakup newbie. I own a MacBook pro laptop running mac os x > 10.5.7 I think. I was just wondering if I could use speakup with this > computer, from what I know the mac os is a version of unix. I want to > use speakup at the command line, there is a program called terminal on > my laptop and when I open it it opens a unix shell I think. I just > wondered if I could configure speakup to work on my laptop or do I > have to be running Linux, also I wondered if there is a big difference > between Linux and unix. Any help would be appreciated. > > Sent from my iPhone >
