I think you are a bit to optomistic. Because speakup works on Debian or arch doesn't mean that it'll work on arm. It's a different architecture. Just figured I'd throw that out there. On 2/20/2012 5:52 PM, Kyle wrote: > From the website: > > What Linux distros will be supported at launch? > > Fedora, Debian and ArchLinux will be supported from the start. We hope > to see support from other distros later. (Because of issues with newer > releases of Ubuntu and the ARM processor we are using, Ubuntu can?t > commit to support Raspberry Pi at the moment.) You will be able to > download distro images from us as soon as the Raspberry Pi is > released, and we will also be selling pre-loaded SD cards shortly > after release. > > So if Arch and Debian are supported, Speakup modules or kernels > compiled with Speakup should run without issues. Some software speech > synthesizers may have memory issues, but eSpeak is sure to run, as it > has an extremely low memory requirement. > > On a side note, I really want one of these things , and will likely > purchase one once the cases are available. Then I can try to get > Talking Arch running on it. I also wonder how easy it would be to get > bluetooth running on something like this. It looks like it would pair > well with a bluetooth keyboard and become a nice little portable > computer. This looks more and more like a fun little project to work > on for very little money. And with the right software, it will work > better than most of those notetaker thingies that still cost 100 times > as much as this baby, and that some people still buy for some reason. > Smile. > ~Kyle > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Take care, Ty Web: http://tds-solutions.net The Aspen project: a light-weight barebones mud engine http://code.google.com/p/aspenmud Sent from my toaster.
