Installing Archlinux on a USB Drive

Installing Archlinux on a USB Drive

[Keith Hinton]

Also, as of now, the Talking Arch images that Chris has produced are
hybrid images. You'll be able to put them onto recordable media, or
something else capable of booting them. Chris has done an extremely
good job at creating these CD images and I've helped out with testing
a bit.
A tip though if you are unsure of how the Arch installer works
however, may be to try something like this.
If you have a Windows machine, you may be able to run a virtual
machine on your computer. I will not discuss that process on this
list-but am suggesting it as a perfect testbed for any Linux related
activity that you may wish to try, especially if you do not have an
available machine that is dedicated exclusively to Linux.
That brings up a good question-why is it, that so many Linux documents
generally recommend having an exclusive machine dedicated to Linux
itself only, rather than the dual-boot and other similar setups? I've
been trying to figure that out for a while.
Keep up the work on the Speakup project everyone!

Sincerely,

--Keith

RE: Installing Archlinux on a USB Drive

[JP Jamous]

Keith,

I am trying to learn more and more of it as my time allows. I blew all of my
partitions on that drive and dedicated the machine for Linux for now.

As far as Chris' work is concerned, yes he has done a damn good job. I have
been programming for the last 12 years and I know how frustrating it can be.
I am already compiling a list of improvements as I go by installing and
learning about Archlinux.

Does he have any control over the synthesizer? SpeakUp is great, but some of
my improvement suggestions point to the synthesizer. That's why I asked.

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Subject: Installing Archlinux on a USB Drive

Also, as of now, the Talking Arch images that Chris has produced are hybrid
images. You'll be able to put them onto recordable media, or something else
capable of booting them. Chris has done an extremely good job at creating
these CD images and I've helped out with testing a bit.
A tip though if you are unsure of how the Arch installer works however, may
be to try something like this.
If you have a Windows machine, you may be able to run a virtual machine on
your computer. I will not discuss that process on this list-but am
suggesting it as a perfect testbed for any Linux related activity that you
may wish to try, especially if you do not have an available machine that is
dedicated exclusively to Linux.
That brings up a good question-why is it, that so many Linux documents
generally recommend having an exclusive machine dedicated to Linux itself
only, rather than the dual-boot and other similar setups? I've been trying
to figure that out for a while.
Keep up the work on the Speakup project everyone!

Sincerely,

--Keith
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Re: Installing Archlinux on a USB Drive

[Chris Brannon]

JP Jamous wrote:
> Does he have any control over the synthesizer? SpeakUp is great, but some of
> my improvement suggestions point to the synthesizer. That's why I asked.

No, not really.
If you have a hardware synthesizer, you can use that instead of espeak.

-- Chris

Re: Installing Archlinux on a USB Drive

[trev.saunders]

Hi,

espeak development doesn't seem to be particularly active, but I believe the author has said he'll atleast entertain ideas for improvement.

Trev

Re: Installing Archlinux on a USB Drive

[Glenn Ervin]

will archlinux support viavoice?
Glenn
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Hi,

espeak development doesn't seem to be particularly active, but I believe the 
author has said he'll atleast entertain ideas for improvement.

Trev
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Re: Installing Archlinux on a USB Drive

[Chris Brannon]

Glenn Ervin wrote:
> will archlinux support viavoice?

Yes, Viavoice -- sold as Voxin -- will run on ArchLinux,
with a little cajoling.
YOu have to do the installation process by hand, but it is doable.

-- Chris

RE: Installing Archlinux on a USB Drive

[JP Jamous]

I recommend that it would be improved. I cannot figure out if it is reading
with a British/Chinese/Arabic/French accent. For example the word "the" is
pronounced wrong.

I am pretty cool with most synthesizers and run them at fast speeds. With
SpeakUp, I have to drop to level 1 and sometimes read word per word even
when the message is just text without command switches. 

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On Behalf Of trev.saunders@gmail.com
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 6:33 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.; Chris Brannon
Subject: Re: Installing Archlinux on a USB Drive

Hi,

espeak development doesn't seem to be particularly active, but I believe the
author has said he'll atleast entertain ideas for improvement.

Trev
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Re: Installing Archlinux on a USB Drive

[trev.saunders]

HI,

while I know some people don't like espeak, that sounds a bit extreme.  Espeak has sound some data files in /usr/share/espeak-data that it uses when generating speech these include some voice profiles for languages and dialects, in /usr/share/espeak-data/voices.  You might find that changing which of those your using may help some.

Trev