Hi,
It should come up talking if you run
gentoo speakup.synth=soft
But I forget if it's speakup.synth or speakup_synth :(
HTH,
KJ4UFX
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 09:46:04PM -0600, jeremy wrote:
> Anything specific needed to get speakup running, using software speech?
> I'm assuming no boot options exist to have it start speaking once it's
> booted. Also, what about anything that may come up before your put into
> a prompt, any configuration things worth worrying about like in grml?
> Take care.
> On 1/16/2012 9:10 PM, bigd wrote:
> > Hi,
> > If you want a small cd (about 120 or so mb), the Gentoo minimal cd's could work. They have speakup and espeakup now.
> >
> > HTH,
> > KJ4UFX
> > {.i doi .tcikoritys. mi cuxna ba'e do}
> > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 01:31:49PM -0800, Robert cole
> > wrote:
> >> Hello, everyone.
> >>
> >> I do a lot of PC repair work for different people (friends, family,
> >> etc), and I was wondering if there are any live Linux distributions
> >> which are Speakup-enabled that would aid me in this task. The only one
> >> that comes to mind right now is ADRIANE Knoppix, but I believe it makes
> >> use of Orca.
> >>
> >> I don't really need a GUI, although it can be helpful at times, but I am
> >> just curious to see if there is anyone else on the list who knows of any
> >> distros for this sort of task that could be run from a CD or USB key
> >> that have Speakup readily available.
> >>
> >> I am still a bit new to screen reading software, but it is sure making
> >> my life much easier. What little vision I have seems to get much more
> >> easily strained nowadays.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any input.
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