speakup question?

speakup question?

[kevin]

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Hello I have a question about the speakup project.  I am verry familear with the alsa drivers because I helped with the release of 9.1, but I am unclear on some things.  Does the screen reader use it's own internal synthesizer?  Does one have to be attached?  I was not informed on this point.
Kevin
email:
kjsisco@rcn.com

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Re: speakup question?

[Steve Holmes]

At the present time, hardware speech is the only way to go.  That
would include internal synthesisers like the double talk or Accent PC
plus the usual array of exter serial synths.  Don't think they ever
got the JTripple talk to go though.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:29:56PM -0400, kevin wrote:
> Hello I have a question about the speakup project.  I am verry familear with the alsa drivers because I helped with the release of 9.1, but I am unclear on some things.  Does the screen reader use it's own internal synthesizer?  Does one have to be attached?  I was not informed on this point.
> Kevin
> email:
> kjsisco@rcn.com

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Re: speakup question?

[kevin]

ah I see.  And would any special configurations have to be made or would it
recognize any external device automaticly.  It looks like it would have to
be manually configured, but I could be wrong.
Kevin
email:
kjsisco@rcn.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: speakup question?


> At the present time, hardware speech is the only way to go.  That
> would include internal synthesisers like the double talk or Accent PC
> plus the usual array of exter serial synths.  Don't think they ever
> got the JTripple talk to go though.
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:29:56PM -0400, kevin wrote:
> > Hello I have a question about the speakup project.  I am verry familear
with the alsa drivers because I helped with the release of 9.1, but I am
unclear on some things.  Does the screen reader use it's own internal
synthesizer?  Does one have to be attached?  I was not informed on this
point.
> > Kevin
> > email:
> > kjsisco@rcn.com
>
> -- 
> HolmesGrown Solutions
> The best solutions for the best price!
> http://ld.net/?holmesgrown
>
> _______________________________________________
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Re: speakup question?

[Janina Sajka]

Well, Speakup is a patch to the kernel, so it's not like you go get an
application and run it. Having said that there are installation disks
that include Speakup for Debian, Red Hat, and Slackware on the Speakup
site. These give you a talking installation of Linux.

Once installed, with a kernel patched with Speakup, you just need to
modprobe for your synth -- with the newest CVS Speakup vesion.
Alternatively, you can compile the driver for your synth into the kernel
and have speech come up through an append line in lilo or grub.


kevin writes:
> From: "kevin" <kjsisco@rcn.com>
> 
> ah I see.  And would any special configurations have to be made or would it
> recognize any external device automaticly.  It looks like it would have to
> be manually configured, but I could be wrong.
> Kevin
> email:
> kjsisco@rcn.com
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@holmesgrown.com>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 1:39 PM
> Subject: Re: speakup question?
> 
> 
> > At the present time, hardware speech is the only way to go.  That
> > would include internal synthesisers like the double talk or Accent PC
> > plus the usual array of exter serial synths.  Don't think they ever
> > got the JTripple talk to go though.
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:29:56PM -0400, kevin wrote:
> > > Hello I have a question about the speakup project.  I am verry familear
> with the alsa drivers because I helped with the release of 9.1, but I am
> unclear on some things.  Does the screen reader use it's own internal
> synthesizer?  Does one have to be attached?  I was not informed on this
> point.
> > > Kevin
> > > email:
> > > kjsisco@rcn.com
> >
> > -- 
> > HolmesGrown Solutions
> > The best solutions for the best price!
> > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> 
> 
> 
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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