Michael, Wonderful job. I really learned quite a bit as a new Linux user. Here are my comments though. 1. Considering that the list is diverse, English is a problem. I am Lebanese and speak Arabic, English and French. However, I have lived in the States for 16 years and heard so many accents. It took me a couple of minutes to get used to your accent. Nothing wrong with it. Yet, I had to listen carefully to pick up on how you pronounce your words. To solve this, I would recommend you speak slowly. Also avoid any day to day rambling, as I like to call it. This is when you do not pronounce the word fully and or you chop off some letters. Those are really hard on people who do not speak good English and or do not have experiences with different dialects. The same goes to your SWSpeak. It was running too fast to understand it. I would recommend you slow it down. This way, both new and advanced users can keep up. Let's take as an example JAWS when it first installs. It runs the default speed rate, which is understandable by everyone. I later end up increasing it to 50%, which is what I like. 2. I would recommend you have an outline at first. Think of it as a table of contents explaining what you are going to do in details and each step. For example, I followed the installation with a few questions. 1. Did you install SWSpeak first to have speech output than you installed the operating system? 2. How did SWSpeak knew what sound card you were using and how did it install without an operating system installed. Those are the kinds of questions a new user would be wondering. This way, you can outline your steps and provide the technical background necessary for people to understand what is going on behind the scenes. 3. Your MP3 broke and Windows Media Player couldn't read it after the deletion of the partition. It was obvious that the MP3 coding was damaged at that point. It could be the server you had it on. I downloaded about 27 mb of the file. 4. If you would like a server to publish it. I would be more than happy to provide you with space on my server. I am really beginning to get into Linux and with a FTP account, you can just upload your web site and people can download it easily. Get back with me on this one if you are interested. You can e-mail me off the list so we do not waste other members' time. In summation, great work. I got the feel of how it runs and hearing it is a great tool. This way, you can follow through. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Michael Whapples Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 5:15 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Some audio tutorials for installing archlinux Hello, I decided to record some audio tutorials for installing archlinux. I started by doing one on using the GRML liveCD to do the install, however this lead to quite a long recording being just short of two hours. So I decided to do one using the speakup modified archlinux installer CD, this came out at about one and a half hours (still a little longer than I really want). I decided before finding a permanent home for these, I would let people have a listen to the initial recordings (I may try and get a bit more editing done on these) and see which people feel are of value. If you feel a written copy of these would be better please say so. The links for now are: The GRML based install http://www.sendspace.com/file/4s4p17 Using the speakup modified archlinux installer CD http://www.sendspace.com/file/e02n38 Thanks for any feedback. Michael Whapples _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
