From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 77AE31EFA91; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:42:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D9FF1EFA8D for ; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:42:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from panix1.panix.com (panix1.panix.com [166.84.1.1]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E781178FF for ; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:42:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by panix1.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 20712) id 1E97B14B9A; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:42:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panix1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C6DC14B7F for ; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:42:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:42:01 -0500 (EST) From: Jude DaShiell To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Installing Slackware Without Hardware Synthesizer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (NEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list 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, 01 Mar 2016 01:42:09 -0000 Not with slackware 14.1 and I suspect not with slackware_current either but you could write volkerdi@slackware.com and ask what the accessibility status is of slackware_current there may be a software speech capability in it by now but I doubt it. I've read no news on this from slackware.com on their website and I suppose it's possible slackware.com could have given up on providing accessibility but I haven't read that either so don't quote me on that. If slackware ever gets to a point it can work with a kickstart file though maybe many more things will become possible. One website I read a while back had instructions for installing emacspeak as a screen reader environment and making a talking login prompt. Slackware does have an initialization file where boot up commands can be put once an iso gets put on a hard drive opened up edited then burnt to dvd again but you'd have to have commands you could put into it to get speech going. I don't know if yasr can run a sound card, but if it can and you can come up with the commands that might be a possibility. Other thing you might try is searching slackbuilds.org for kickstart and see if anyone made a script to build it on slackware. On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, Haden Pike wrote: > Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:32:22 > From: Haden Pike > Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > > To: speakup@linux-speakup.org > Subject: Installing Slackware Without Hardware Synthesizer > > Hi all, > > I do not have a hardware synthesizer. Do I have any other options for performing an install of Slackware that do not involve me finding a sighted person to install it for me? > > Thanks, > Haden Pike > Computer Science > University of Kentucky > Class of 2016 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup --