Hi Tony, So how do you tell Debian that you want to use speakup during the installation? Thanks james lyn Nash and Twinny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Baechler" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:27 AM Subject: Re: Vinux > Ah, this I understand. I was unaware that the live CD would come up > talking. That is a valid point and I can see why people would like that. > Oralux was supposed to do the same thing, but it didn't work for me. > Again, that opens up a bunch of other issues, such as what if there are > multiple sound cards? What if Linux doesn't support the driver for your > sound card? The advantage to something like grml is that you have more > flexibility, even though it requires typing the right thing within the > right number of seconds. You can have software speech, hardware speech if > you have a hardware synth, or no speech if you would rather use ssh, or a > combination of the above. I was working on someone else's machine when > for no obvious reason, grml lost software speech. I couldn't do much > without speech, but it wasn't a problem. I just set up dhcp, started an > ssh server and finished from a different machine. Yes, a new blind user > won't know about that, but the point is that you aren't locked into one > method of doing things, even though it does mean entering boot parameters. > > I must say that I really like the way Debian handles this with the > installation. It beeps to let you know that it's booted and doesn't > timeout right away. It also is smart enough to install Speakup > automatically if you use it to do the install. > > John G. Heim wrote: >> The main reason for something like vinux is that a lot of people have a >> hard time just getting started with linux. Over on a list for blind >> sysadmins, the question comes up just about every time someone mentions >> live CDs -- is there one that comes up talking without my having to just >> the right key at just the right time. >> >> People are already struggling with linux, they don't want to have to >> struggle to get speech started too. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
