Hi Erik and List yes espeakup can speak german too. As Root: nano /etc/default/espeakup< enter> voice=de Then ctrl+x "j" and Enter should do it. Reboot and enjoy. I cant say anything to Laptoplayouts greatings Lutz Am 01.12.2011 14:09, schrieb Eric Scheibler: > Hello, > > I started to use speakup under Debian Squeeze and I have a few beginners > questions. > > If I move up the cursor one line with speakup + u, how can I jump to the > beginning or end of the line? At the moment I stand somewhere and must > search the beginning by pressing speakup + j until I'am there. > > Is it possible to turn on the word echo, so that speakup reads the > current word after pressing space? > > At the moment all non letters are pronounced in english. Is there a > translated version of the file i18n/characters for other languages > especially for german? If not does someone work on it? > > I read your documentation file and found the list of shortcuts to > control speakup. I'am a laptop user and sadly I only could find the key > bindings for the desktop layout. I also tried speakups help system but > the key listing is incomplete. Could someone tell me the laptop key > bindings for the following commands? > 1. cursor tracking mode (numpad *) > 2. mark (/) for cut and paste > > I also want to change the mapping of some keys. But I can't find the > file speakupmap.map in the directory > /usr/src/linux-<version_number>/drivers/char/speakup/. I didn't compiled > speakup into the kernel myself but use modprobe to activate it (Debian > Squeeze with kernel 3.0.0). Is there a method to do the key mapping anyway? > > I tried to install the extra package speakup-tools but I got the > following error message: > [ 8119.984075] CIFS VFS: Error connecting to socket. Aborting operation > [ 8120.000189] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -115 > What does this mean? > > Thanks for help > Best regards > Eric > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- viele Gr??e Lutz