Have you tried using software speech on your machine? I would be very
surprised if it really is too slow. I used to have a laptop with a
original Pentium processor and 56Mb of ram. That is not a typo, 56Mb of
ram. Speakup with software speech ran fine. I used to walk around my
house streaming the audio portion of TV shows on it. I also have a
machine that is the mid-90s equivalent of a raspberry pi. This machine
has a 486 processor and 256Mb of ram. It's a Soekris 4801 in case you're
curious. Anyway, it runs speakup with software speech just fine.
I guess it might depend on what else you are doing on your machine. But
if your machine is slow, I would doubt that the problem is primarily
with software speech.
On 05/18/2015 08:20 PM, Tom Fowle wrote:
Thanks all for various comments.
I did read the wikki but didn't seem to find anything about speakup.
which
is my only serious interest in screen readers for now.
Yes use brltty also but unfortunately brltty's speech system doesn't
support
the doubletalk.
My box is too slow for software speech unless I want a lot of naps.
I believe running version 3.2.60-1+deb7u3
Looks like my cowardly best bet is to wait till more experienced users
have
a go.
Since I don't care about multiple desktops only reason to upgrade
appears
to be so as not to get behind the upgrades and eventually have to
entirely
reinstall.
Thanks
Tom Fowle
wa6ivgtf@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, May 18, 2015, at 12:21 AM, Mike Ray wrote:
Hello,
I did a full net install of Debian Jessie rather than upgrade Wheezy to
Jessie to Wheezy because Jessie gives alternative desktops.
I picked the Mate desktop and it works very well, and accessibility is
excellent.
Debian Jessie now includes Emacspeak in the repos, so no need to build
it from source.
I have found no big accessibility problems.
Mike
On 18/05/2015 03:41, acollins@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi Tom. I would suggest you test Jessie with a live cd, and if that
works, then upgrade.
Gene Collins
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