Linux with Software Synth on Dell Enspiron2600 Laptop

[John Heim]

I agree. Either oralux or grml will probably work. I think the biggest 
problem would be that the installation process isn't going to be as easy as 
it would be if you could boot a debian or fedora installation Cd.

I don't know how to install via grml. You could probably do the debootstrap 
style install. But oralux is a flavor of knoppix. Here is a link to a 
document that I have used in the past:
http://gsic.tel.uva.es/mendiknoppix/doc/debootstrap.html

You would have to make a few modifications for etch. But the process is 
essentially the same.



From: "Willem van der Walt" <wvdwalt at csir.co.za>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 2:35 AM
Subject: Re: Linux with Software Synth on Dell Enspiron2600 Laptop


> Hi Martin,
> The last oralux is not that old, should most likely still do what you want
> it to.
> In terms of free software speech and limmited resources, nothing beats
> espeak.
> Regards, Willem
>
>
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Martin McCormick wrote:
>
>> I seem to be between a rock and a hard place and I
>> haven't even started yet. The Dell laptop is about 5 years old
>> and has a 1-GHZ processor but only 256 megs of RAM. There is no
>> serial port on the system but there is a USB port which I plan
>> to use with a serial converter assuming I get Debian installed.
>>
>> I was thinking of oralux until I got on that web site
>> and read that it has been dead for several years. That's a real
>> shame because I had no serious trouble getting oralux to come up
>> talking on a ten-year-old gateway with 128 megs of RAM and a
>> 400-MHZ processor. If only there was something free and newer
>> with that same functionality so as to see if it is viable. The
>> problem with something that is at its end of life is that one is stuck 
>> with
>> whatever final form it took. If there is a bug or lack of
>> support for this or that hardware, too bad.
>>
>> Is there any sort of live CD that doesn't also bring up
>> a GUI or have some other huge resource hog? gnome and orca are
>> great but I have been advised that the ubunto CD probably won't
>> be a good idea in this case. Since there is no native serial
>> port, I don't have my favorite installation method on this
>> system. Usually, I use another working system and kermit to use
>> the Debian serial console which is no problem at all.
>>
>> For what I mostly do, a command line with software
>> speech similar to oralux but supporting more recent systems was
>> what I was shooting for. This system doesn't appear to quite
>> have the memory to handle orca, software speech and gnome.
>>
>> Festival will probably work fine based upon what I have
>> heard it do on slower systems, but it's that need for a talking
>> installation procedure I am concerned about.
>>
>> Martin McCormick
>>
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