speakup on fedora?

[Janina Sajka]

Best ask on the Speakup list. I haven't used it. Others have.

hank writes:
> From: hank <hank at hanksmith.net>
> 
> how do you use speak up knopix?
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 6:16 AM
> Subject: Re: speakup on fedora?
> 
> 
> > The advantage of Oralux, and any Knopix for that matter, is precisely as
> > you describe. The disadvantage is that it only does what it does and
> > won't easily do anything else--because it's on static media.
> >
> > As for Speakup, support for software speech is progressing and seems to
> > be close to ready for prime time. However, it's easiest to get it
> > working with a hardware device. And, the Speakup enabled Knopix
> > available on the Speakup web page is built for hardware speech, as I
> > understand it. Kirk will correct me if I'm wrong on that point.
> >
> > gumnos (Tim Chase) writes:
> > > From: "gumnos (Tim Chase)" <gumnos at hotmail.com>
> > >
> > > > So, what I am understanding is that in order to have speech with linux
> > > > I'll need an external synthesizer?
> > >
> > > I heard from a fellow this morning that Oralux 0.6 should come with Yasr
> > > running with flite/eflite which is entirely software driven.  I haven't
> > > gotten to give it a try yet, but it sounds like that's another option.
> > > It would be helpful in computer labs at school where you could just drop
> > > the live CD in the drive and boot from there, having all sorts of tools
> > > at your disposal.  The Oralux download page didn't have any ISO links
> > > when I just checked.
> > >
> > > -tim
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

		Chair, Accessibility Workgroup
	Free Standards Group (FSG)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175