-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:11:39PM +0100, Jennifer wrote: > I currently have no hardware synthesizer, is this necessary in order to achieve speech output? No. If ubuntu has speakup packages, along with espeakup, the speakup/espeak connector, you should be able to build your kernel using a combination of speakup and espeakup to get software speech output via your sound hardware at the text console. If ubuntu still doesn't provide speakup/espeakup, and if you're already comfortable with building kernel modules, and compiling software, you can still use speakup in the text console, with software speech, to build your kernel. If neither of those is an option, then you can still use orca reading the text terminal window to you, in order to build a kernel, but I haven't done much with orca in text terminal windows, so I don't know how well that would work. > Also will there be any problems because I am using a NetBook and is there any specific documentation relating to UBUNTU that I should read instead of a more general guide? Someone else will have to answer the netbook part of your question. As for what to read, you'll definitely want to read the kernel building howto, if you haven't done so already. Reading ubuntu documentation specific to building kernels, (if such documentation exists), wouldn't hurt either. Hth. Greg - -- 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 v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkq79WYACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyBBbACffmitKOOOob23lylQKxjWKenc 3tsAoN2XAbkYfXDXeJSgPz/9NJl4/NAt =8SMa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
