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From: "James & Nash" <james.austin1984@googlemail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Vinux
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:32:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00D66FE6B8DF4D829A998122327CBDDA@JA1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A24F073.9040606@baechler.net>

Hi Tony,

So how do you tell Debian that you want to use speakup during the 
installation?

Thanks

james lyn Nash and Twinny
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony@baechler.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: Vinux


> Ah, this I understand.  I was unaware that the live CD would come up 
> talking.  That is a valid point and I can see why people would like that. 
> Oralux was supposed to do the same thing, but it didn't work for me. 
> Again, that opens up a bunch of other issues, such as what if there are 
> multiple sound cards?  What if Linux doesn't support the driver for your 
> sound card?  The advantage to something like grml is that you have more 
> flexibility, even though it requires typing the right thing within the 
> right number of seconds.  You can have software speech, hardware speech if 
> you have a hardware synth, or no speech if you would rather use ssh, or a 
> combination of the above.  I was working on someone else's machine when 
> for no obvious reason, grml lost software speech.  I couldn't do much 
> without speech, but it wasn't a problem.  I just set up dhcp, started an 
> ssh server and finished from a different machine.  Yes, a new blind user 
> won't know about that, but the point is that you aren't locked into one 
> method of doing things, even though it does mean entering boot parameters.
>
> I must say that I really like the way Debian handles this with the 
> installation.  It beeps to let you know that it's booted and doesn't 
> timeout right away.  It also is smart enough to install Speakup 
> automatically if you use it to do the install.
>
> John G. Heim wrote:
>> The main reason for something like vinux is that a lot of people have a 
>> hard time just getting started with linux. Over on a list for blind 
>> sysadmins, the question comes up just about every time someone mentions 
>> live CDs -- is there one that comes up talking without my having to just 
>> the right key at just the right time.
>>
>> People are already struggling with linux, they don't want to have to 
>> struggle to get speech started too.
>
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  reply	other threads:[~ UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Accessible Ubuntu Installation? Gaijin
 ` Tyler Littlefield
 ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Glenn Ervin
 ` Michael Whapples
   ` Jerry Matheny
     ` Glenn Ervin
 ` Georgina Joyce
   ` Vinux (was: Re: Accessible Ubuntu Installation?) Tony Baechler
     ` Samuel Thibault
       ` James & Nash
         ` Vinux Tony Baechler
           ` Vinux James & Nash
       ` Vinux Hermann
         ` Vinux Tony Baechler
           ` Vinux Samuel Thibault
           ` Vinux Gregory Nowak
     ` Vinux (was: Re: Accessible Ubuntu Installation?) al Sten-Clanton
     ` John G. Heim
       ` Vinux Tony Baechler
         ` James & Nash [this message]
           ` Vinux Samuel Thibault
             ` Vinux James & Nash
             ` Vinux Terry D. Cudney
     ` Vinux (was: Re: Accessible Ubuntu Installation?) Georgina Joyce
     ` William F. Acker WB2FLW +1 303 722 7209
 vinux Jude DaShiell
 ` vinux Georgina Joyce

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