* Re: Fedora 12 and speakup
@ Janina Sajka
` Georgina Joyce
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Gina and All:
The files included in the Speakup Modified Fedora are now individually
accessible via http, ftp, and rsync. So, try something like:
http://SpeakupModified.Org and follow the links for 64-bit or 32-bit
files.
ftp://ftp.speakupmodified.org/speakupmodified/fedora/current/Fedora/
rsync -l speakupmodified.org::speakupmodified/current/Fedora/
After selecting your architecture, select the Packages directory. You'll
find all the Fedora files there, including the Speakup Modified kernels.
So, it's not quite as good as a yum repository--but we're getting there!
And, you can certainly install these kernels with a command like:
yum localinstall [kernel-name]
And, that will give you Fedora 12 with Speakup.
Enjoy!
Janina
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* Re: Fedora 12 and speakup
Fedora 12 and speakup Janina Sajka
@ ` Georgina Joyce
` Janina Sajka
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Georgina Joyce @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hi Janina
Many thanks for your hard work. I'll grab the files later. I'm still
trying to work out why I can't get speakup working with software speech
as I want to put F12 on my notebook. But on my test machine having
commenting out line 9 as advised on your website. I'm not getting any
errors or speech. as I've run mkinitrd and included the ltlk speakup
driver, the talkwith script appears to load things OK but I'm not
getting any speech. Even though, I can play sound files nice and
loudly.
I wondered whether you considered republishing your previous howto's? I
had to use google's cache to find them. The first boot stuff and other
useful comments are still relevent.
Gena
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 14:08 -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Gina and All:
>
> The files included in the Speakup Modified Fedora are now individually
> accessible via http, ftp, and rsync. So, try something like:
>
> http://SpeakupModified.Org and follow the links for 64-bit or 32-bit
> files.
>
> ftp://ftp.speakupmodified.org/speakupmodified/fedora/current/Fedora/
>
> rsync -l speakupmodified.org::speakupmodified/current/Fedora/
>
> After selecting your architecture, select the Packages directory. You'll
> find all the Fedora files there, including the Speakup Modified kernels.
>
> So, it's not quite as good as a yum repository--but we're getting there!
> And, you can certainly install these kernels with a command like:
>
> yum localinstall [kernel-name]
>
> And, that will give you Fedora 12 with Speakup.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Janina
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
--
Gena
four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:
* The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
* The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your
needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
* The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
(freedom 2).
* The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements
to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access
to the source code is a precondition for this.
Richard Matthew Stallman
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` Georgina Joyce
@ ` Janina Sajka
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hi, Gina:
To answer your second question first, yes, someday, I hope! At least,
I've not given up on it. But, there are so many changes now, and some of
them I'm still grappling with--like the possibility to use Orca with the
Live image for installation.
I can pretty much promise it won't be before summer. I have a major
deliverable due late May which will take all my writing time.
As to getting software speech working ...
Are you referring to espeak, perhaps? Have you installaed and strated
espeakup? It runs as a service like this:
service espeakup start
And, you make it permanent with:
chkconfig espeakup on
Oh, and if you don't have it, look for it on the Speakup Modified! It's
there.
Janina
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* Fedora 12 and speakup
@ Georgina Joyce
` Michael Whapples
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Georgina Joyce @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hi
I wondered if pulse audio or something else prevents speakup from using
software speech on a Fedora 12 system installed from the Live cD?
Thanks.
--
Gena
four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:
* The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
* The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your
needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
* The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
(freedom 2).
* The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements
to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access
to the source code is a precondition for this.
Richard Matthew Stallman
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Georgina Joyce
@ ` Michael Whapples
` Janina Sajka
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Michael Whapples @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hello,
I don't know whether it does prevent things in the standard
configuration but on the orca list Halim suggested editing the
/etc/asound.conf file so that pulseaudio goes through a dmix and so
won't block the actual hardware device. Sorry I don't have the exact
link to hand but I am sure if you look back through the orca list
archives you will find the configuration posted.
Michael Whapples
On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Georgina Joyce wrote:
> Hi
>
> I wondered if pulse audio or something else prevents speakup from using
> software speech on a Fedora 12 system installed from the Live cD?
>
> Thanks.
>
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: Fedora 12 and speakup
` Michael Whapples
@ ` Janina Sajka
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
This is a trivial edit that we've recommended on the Speakup Modified
home page for some time.
Simply open /etc/asound.conf in your favorite text editor and comment
line 9. This is the line that loads pluseaudio, so if you place a hash
symbol, aka pound sign, aka octothorp, there--namely the '#'
symobl--you'll prevent pulseaudio
Simply open /etc/asound.conf in your favorite text editor and comment
line 9. This is the line that loads pluseaudio, so if you place a hash
symbol, aka pound sign, aka octothorp, there--namely the '#'
symbol--you'll prevent pulseaudio from loading.
Make this edit, save and exit, and your changes will shortly take
effect.
Janina
Michael Whapples writes:
> Hello,
> I don't know whether it does prevent things in the standard
> configuration but on the orca list Halim suggested editing the
> /etc/asound.conf file so that pulseaudio goes through a dmix and so
> won't block the actual hardware device. Sorry I don't have the exact
> link to hand but I am sure if you look back through the orca list
> archives you will find the configuration posted.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Georgina Joyce wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >I wondered if pulse audio or something else prevents speakup from using
> >software speech on a Fedora 12 system installed from the Live cD?
> >
> >Thanks.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
--
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sip:janina@rednote.net
Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org
Linux Foundation http://a11y.org
Chair, Protocols & Formats
Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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