question about speakup

question about speakup

[Jason Holden]

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I am wondering what everyone here recomends for a speach setup on a laptop. Would you recomend the double talk lt, or is there a usb one that does work with speakup sutch as triple talk? Any informaiton on this would be apriciated. I have to purchase a laptop for school and I will be running linux on it so I am just needing suggestions . 

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Re: question about speakup

[Lorenzo Prince]

I personally use YASR with flite on my laptop, although if you can get the
Festival modifications to work it would probably be even better.  Unless
you absolutely need to have speakup enabled immediately from boot and
running all the way untill shutdown, a software sollution is probably
better for a laptop.

Lorenzo

How should I know if it works?  That's what beta testers are for.  I
only coded it.
	-- Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting

Jason Holden staggered into view and mumbled:

> I am wondering what everyone here recomends for a speach setup on a laptop. Would you recomend the double talk lt, or is there a usb one that does work with speakup sutch as triple talk? Any informaiton on this would be apriciated. I have to purchase a laptop for school and I will be running linux on it so I am just needing suggestions .

Re: question about speakup

[Jason Holden]

YASR, Flite?? Can you explain what these programs are I personaly havn't
heard of them. Maybe you have a webpage reference I can look at?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lorenzo Prince" <lorenzo@princenet.sytes.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: question about speakup


> I personally use YASR with flite on my laptop, although if you can get the
> Festival modifications to work it would probably be even better.  Unless
> you absolutely need to have speakup enabled immediately from boot and
> running all the way untill shutdown, a software sollution is probably
> better for a laptop.
>
> Lorenzo
>
> How should I know if it works?  That's what beta testers are for.  I
> only coded it.
> -- Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting
>
> Jason Holden staggered into view and mumbled:
>
> > I am wondering what everyone here recomends for a speach setup on a
laptop. Would you recomend the double talk lt, or is there a usb one that
does work with speakup sutch as triple talk? Any informaiton on this would
be apriciated. I have to purchase a laptop for school and I will be running
linux on it so I am just needing suggestions .
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>

Re: question about speakup

[Lorenzo Prince]

Yasr is a screen reader for Unix that runs a subshell.  If you want it to
run automatically at startup, you would but it in your .bash_login file.
Take a look at
http://yasr.sourceforge.net
for more information.  This site also has links to flite,a  software
speech synthesizer used with YASR, and eflite, which is the interface that
connects to the synthesizer.

Lorenzo

Look, I'm about to buy me a double barreled sawed off shotgun and show
Linus what I think about backspace and delete not working.
	-- some anonymous .signature

Jason Holden staggered into view and mumbled:

> YASR, Flite?? Can you explain what these programs are I personaly havn't
> heard of them. Maybe you have a webpage reference I can look at?

Re: question about speakup

[jude dashiell]

I wonder, would a yaasr boot disk be feasible?  Probably not with flite
but it might be interesting to see just how much installation help could
be obtained from yasr.  The need exists for redhat 9.0 if you haven't got
two comput3ers so one of them could be used as a telnet box.

Re: question about speakup

[Thomas D. Ward]

No, I don't believe it is feasible. One yasr was not designed to be used on
boot disks, it's hardware synth support isn't all that advanced, and it
creates it's own sub shell which provides speech to bash, pico, etc.

----- Original Message -----
From: jude dashiell <dashielljt@gmpexpress.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: question about speakup


> I wonder, would a yaasr boot disk be feasible?  Probably not with flite
> but it might be interesting to see just how much installation help could
> be obtained from yasr.  The need exists for redhat 9.0 if you haven't got
> two comput3ers so one of them could be used as a telnet box.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: question about speakup

[jude dashiell]

That being the case, an anaconda-kickstart file say from a redhat 8.0
install used to install 9.0 possibly after editing might be the best way
for those with a single computer to install 9.0.

Re: question about speakup

[Thomas D. Ward]

Hi, yasr is another shell based screen reader. It is pretty good for what It
does. I use it on my laptop and not speakup, because it supports several
software synths.
You can obtain the source for yasr from:
yasr.sourceforge.net
You can obtain Michael's eflite server from:
eflite.sourceforge.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Holden <jason2@execulink.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: question about speakup


> YASR, Flite?? Can you explain what these programs are I personaly havn't
> heard of them. Maybe you have a webpage reference I can look at?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lorenzo Prince" <lorenzo@princenet.sytes.net>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 11:09 PM
> Subject: Re: question about speakup
>
>
> > I personally use YASR with flite on my laptop, although if you can get
the
> > Festival modifications to work it would probably be even better.  Unless
> > you absolutely need to have speakup enabled immediately from boot and
> > running all the way untill shutdown, a software sollution is probably
> > better for a laptop.
> >
> > Lorenzo
> >
> > How should I know if it works?  That's what beta testers are for.  I
> > only coded it.
> > -- Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting
> >
> > Jason Holden staggered into view and mumbled:
> >
> > > I am wondering what everyone here recomends for a speach setup on a
> laptop. Would you recomend the double talk lt, or is there a usb one that
> does work with speakup sutch as triple talk? Any informaiton on this would
> be apriciated. I have to purchase a laptop for school and I will be
running
> linux on it so I am just needing suggestions .
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: question about speakup

[Thomas D. Ward]

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Well, if you can get it working I would build speakup 1.5 with festival.
I don't know about you, but I like to use software synths on laptops and festival is currently what you need for software speech with speakup.
Hth.

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  From: Jason Holden 
  To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 11:07 PM
  Subject: question about speakup


  I am wondering what everyone here recomends for a speach setup on a laptop. Would you recomend the double talk lt, or is there a usb one that does work with speakup sutch as triple talk? Any informaiton on this would be apriciated. I have to purchase a laptop for school and I will be running linux on it so I am just needing suggestions . 

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Re: question about speakup

[Tommy Moore]

Yesterday I built the Speakup program with software speech support and
I've found it to be really sluggish and the review functions don't
seem to work too well.
It does work to a degree, but has a long way to go to actually be
something I'd want to replace my hardware synth with software.
Yasr looks to be the better of the two console speech options for now.

Tommy