Speakup works on the Geode by NSC. That's the chip in my Soekris 4801. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 7:02 PM Subject: Re: Anyone thought about raspberry pie? 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. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
