From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bay0-omc2-s22.bay0.hotmail.com ([65.54.246.158]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ht3Lo-0005b6-00 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 11:11:08 -0400 Received: from hotmail.com ([65.55.152.14]) by bay0-omc2-s22.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668); Tue, 29 May 2007 08:10:37 -0700 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 29 May 2007 08:10:37 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 71.111.96.206 by BAY141-DAV4.phx.gbl with DAV; Tue, 29 May 2007 15:10:34 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [71.111.96.206] X-Originating-Email: [z_kline@hotmail.com] X-Sender: z_kline@hotmail.com From: "Zachary Kline" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <017b01c7a1ff$89546390$4ba65c90@vv507j> Subject: Re: Debian install with Software Speech? Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 08:10:01 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 May 2007 15:10:37.0571 (UTC) FILETIME=[835AB530:01C7A203] 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: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:11:08 -0000 Hiya, The reason I couldn't use a hardware synth is precisely because I don't have a serial port on any of my machines. It's downright annoying, but I wish there were support for USB to serial adaptors, or something along those lines. Either that, or preferably USB synths directly. Thanks much, Zack. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Heim" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 7:42 AM Subject: Re: Debian install with Software Speech? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Zachary Kline" > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > > Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:52 AM > Subject: Debian install with Software Speech? > > >> Hiya, >> I don't have access to a hardware speech synthesizer, and so was >> wondering what the options are for me to get a Debian install. I know >> that Gentoo can run SSHD, and let me do the install manually with another >> machine, but Deebian doesn't seem to do this. >> Does anybody have any advice? > > I've done a couple of installs via the old serial tty approach. There are > still a lot of howtos out on the web for this but briefly, what you need > to > do is attach a null modem cable to the serial port on the target machine, > connect the other end to a machine that already has speech and fire up a > terminal emulator program on that machine. At the boot prompt, type > 'linux > console=ttyS0,9600n8'. There are lots of variations on what you'd type at > the boot prompt so consult the howtows. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >