From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.46]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HLiXr-0002fz-00 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:17:47 -0500 Received: from ALBERTLC7SN0ZA ([68.163.231.97]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JE200GLSVX1WHZB@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:17:27 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:19:36 -0500 From: "Albert E. Sten-Clanton" Subject: Re: Speakup Digest, Vol 41, Issue 47 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-id: <001a01c759c1$e9205940$6405a8c0@ALBERTLC7SN0ZA> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: <20070225001630.GB7598@grml> X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:17:47 -0000 Hi, Doug! I've tried repeatedly to use swspeak, but so far have failed. My = speakers apparently are connected, and their volume high enough that I = should hear them if they're getting anything. Under Fedora, Kudzu seems = to find my sound card, though it, too, seems unable to give me software = speech output when I try to run Emacspeak. How would I determine = whether the grml CD also finds it? (Ordinarily, I boot that up with my = tripletalk usb.) Any other directions in which you can point me for possible answers? I = once did have software speech (damned lousy though it was), since I used = Debian 3.0, I think, for a few months. I therefore doubt it's a bad = card, and figure I must be missing something. Thanks! Al ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Doug Smith" To: Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 7:16 PM Subject: Re: Speakup Digest, Vol 41, Issue 47 > Ok, I will try to address two or three questions at one time. I > accidentally set this subscription up the wrong way so that I get the > digest form of all the mails from the list, so I will have to change > it in a few minutes. =20 >=20 > Well, question 1: the machines I tried the GRML disk on to see if they > would boot. The first one, a machine on display at a local Circuit > City store, was, indeed, an HP. It booted, then came the funny failure > message about the 128 samples. Someone on here said he tried to boot > ubuntu in an hp machine with an amd 64 X 2 dual core and it didn't > even boot. Well, that should solve that question. The second > machine, one on display at Sam's Club, might have been an HP, but I > didn't look on the side of the casing to see if the raised letters hp > were there, so I do not know. It might have been, but the message was > the same. =20 >=20 > Now, the question about the software speech. GRML comes with eflite > and flite. It works with speakup, and here's how you do it. =20 >=20 > You might need some sighted assistance, the first time, but I don't > think you will if you can hear the drive spin. =20 >=20 > first step: put the disk in and start the machine. The drive will > spin for a short time, then stop. =20 > Second step: When the drive finishes its first short spin, you need to > enterthis:=20 > grml swspeak > You need to be sure that you spell it right, or you will end up having > to reboot in order to try over. =20 > third step: Listen for the sound to come up. It will not be loud, > because GRML only brings up the mixer setting for the alsa pcm device > to 75%. You will year the words:=20 > finished activating software speakup, just run swspeak when booting > finished > You will know that you are successfully into the speech interface when > this happens. fourth step: When the boot sequence is almost finished, > you will hear the words:=20 >=20 > finished booting >=20 > Now, enter swspeak and wait a while to see if you can hear the system > come up talking. You will need to do this:=20 > fifth step: enter this:=20 >=20 > aumix -w 100 >=20 > This will bring the sound all the way up. =20 >=20 > Now, if all went well, you should be ready to do something with it. =20 >=20 > Now, I haven't gotten that far in reading the digest yet, but there > was something on there about connecting to the net using GRML. You > can do it with w3m. It takes quite a bit of space to explain how to > do it exactly, but I will be more than happy to work with you. =20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > Hope this helps.=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > I use grml (http://grml.org/) >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >=20 >=20 > --=20 > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.412 / Virus Database: 268.18.3 - Release Date: 2/19/2007 >=20 >