From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 14808 invoked from network); 30 Nov 1998 16:14:07 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Nov 1998 16:14:07 -0000 Received: from mud.blinksoft.com (blinksoft.com [208.219.30.2]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA01872 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:11:54 -0500 Received: from localhost (whistler@localhost) by mud.blinksoft.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA31253 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:10:18 -0700 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 10:10:18 -0700 (MST) From: Whistler To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: speech output for Linux, speakup-0.03 released In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: While I have not used your product yet I want to just send a mail of support. I want to use it as soon as I am able to get a machine set up witht he development kernal. I have to many machines that just use 2.0. Anyway I just wanted tos end my mail of support for your product. ken /whistler On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Announcing the third alpha release of speakup v-0.03. > > Speakup is a screen review package for the Linux operating system. It > allows you to hear all output directed to the console and move around > the screen using the typical screen review functions. > > This is an alpha release which means it is by no means complete. It > only supports the Double Talk internal synthesizer currently, but > hopefully we will increase it's variety of synths in the not to > distant future. > > It is quite usable in it's current incarnation though, with the > blaring lack of cursor output support. That means in an editor it > doesn't read each line as you move up and down the screen. It tracks > the cursor so you just need to do a say current line but it doesn't do > it all by itself. There is more to be said for cursor tracking and > speaking than meets the ear at first glance. > > Speakup is a set of kernel patches which means you should have some > experience with kernel compiling. It currently works on the Linux > development kernels 2.1.125 and above. At this release we are at > kernel 2.1.130. > > What's new in v-0.03? Read the Changes file included in the tar > archive for full descriptions of my changes. Say phonetic character > is new. Speakup now says the status of caps_lock, num_lock and > scroll_lock when they are toggled. Rewrote portions of various files > to speed up operation and clean up some bugs. Oh, don't worry there's > still plenty of bugs to squash! > > There is a mailing list for speakup which you are welcome to join if > you are interested in it's on going development. You can subscribe to > the mailing list by sending a message to listserv@braille.uwo.ca with > a line in the body of the message like this: > > subscribe speakup (YourFirstName YourLastName) > > The mailing list is currently a very low traffic forum so you probably > won't be overwhelmed with mail. > > The official speakup distribution point is > ftp://ftp.braille.uwo.ca/pub/speakup. For now, I am just dropping the > documents there as I write them. It will probably become more > organized as time goes on but for now I just want to get information > written and out there for public consumption as quickly as possible. > > Speakup is written by Kirk Reiser and Andy Berdan. It is covered by > the GPL (GNU Public License). > > So, like I think that's about it. If you have any questions feel free > to write me at kirk@braille.uwo.ca. If you have a DoubleTalk internal > synth, we could really use your feedback. If you are just diing to > get involved in a software project, boy do we have a bridge to sell > you! 'grin' > > Kirk > > email: kirk@braille.uwo.ca > phone: (519) 679-6845 (home) > > --- > Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@redhat.com > Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux > Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux > To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@redhat.com > with subject line: unsubscribe >