You mean you still have serial port access with your system? What kernel version are you up to? I can't use serial ports for speech anymore with my 2.6.34 kernel I'm not exactly sure when this was lost but I thought this was across the board with the current version of speakup and newer kernels. I would love to be able to use my Speakout once in a while. On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:47:12PM -0500, Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi. I believe it is planned to have software speech available on the Squeeze installer, but I > haven't seen a recent update on the status. > Since I have an Accent SA, I haven't payed close attention to the progress on software speech in the installer. > There is no problem using software speech after the install. Just aptitude -q install espeakup and > make sure speakup_soft is in /etc/modules. This will work on Lenny as well as > Squeeze. > Although I use software speech after boot, I still let the system start out with the Accent SA so I can hear things like fsck. > I switch to software speech first thing after login. > > Kenny > > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:30:16PM +0200, ?yvind Lode wrote: > > Hi: > > > > Will I be able to use software speech with Debian testing and the next > > stable release "squeeze"? > > My understanding is that I can't use software speech with Lenny. > > So I need sighted assistance when doing a install. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
