Thanks Rob, Yes, I have installed espeak and espeakup... I'm wondering now where and how I give the commands to start them up, hopefully so they'll come up as soon as possible without my having to load them each time. Liz On 3/25/2011 4:49 PM, Rob Whyte wrote: > Hi Liz, > I believe you may be looking for packages espeakup or speech-dispatcher > to with with speakup in a console and loading at system start. > > hope that is helpful. > > On 26/03/11 08:24, Liz Hare wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've just installed Debian built kernel 2.6.32, and unfortunately have >> to use software speech (espeak). Can I configure this to load >> automatically before login? Would this be somehow passed through Grub2 >> or specified in some configuration file? Sorry about the dumb question >> but I've been googling all day. >> >> Liz >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >