i only have softvare syntheziser not a hardvare a plastik box to my compiuter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Cox" <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 2:49 PM Subject: Re: speakup and ubuntu, was: Re: World writable speakup files inLinux next > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:14 AM, <aerospace1028 at hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> Sorry, I've been away from e-mail for a couple of days. >> >> I've moved onto archlinux, but I remember Storm had some instructions of >> installing speakup on ubuntu. >> >> http://stormdragon.us/ > > Luke has more tightly integrated speakup into Ubuntu in 10.10. All > you do is "apt-get install speakup", which is very cool. He has > proposed to Debian that they incorporate his flow for making this > work. > > However, you still need a working synth to use speakup. I haven't > tried espeakup in Ubuntu 10.10, since I prefer to use voxin with > speakup, which only works through speechd-up. However, I assume it > still works as before, so try using Storm's instructions to get > espeakup working. The latest Vinux release, 3.1, is based on Ubuntu > 10.10 and uses a modified speechd-up program that makes it work a lot > more like espeakup than the old version. > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup