Beginner, soliciting input for where to begin.

[Anders Holmberg]

Hello!
I never got speech to work with ubunto.
THough braille works great.
BUt it seems that it does not like my m-audio card.
/Anders.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: Beginner, soliciting input for where to begin.


> Right. And ubuntu has become really popular lately.  I doubt very many 
> people are running grml full time. But lots of people are running ubuntu. 
> That might be worth considering for a new user.
>
> On the other hand, I have a fairly new Dell 745 at work and ubuntu won't 
> speak at all on it. It doesn't recognize the sound card or something. 
> But I don't really know what's wrong because it doesn't speak.  I was 
> trying ubuntu-7.04. A more recent version might work better.  Like i said 
> in my other message, i'm not bashing either ubuntu or orca.  I just 
> wouldn't expect them to be as smooth as Windows/jaws.  You're dealing with 
> cutting edge stuff on both ends.
>
> I am building a PC from scratch (just to do it) and intend to use it to 
> switch away from Windows/jaws to linux/orca. I don't know if I'll go with 
> ubuntu or plain old debian.  Ubuntu was going to drop support for speakup 
> (they may already have) and that would eliminate them from consideration 
> for me.
>
> From: "Geoff Shang" <Geoff at quitelikely.com>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 10:28 AM
> Subject: Re: Beginner, soliciting input for where to begin.
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's worth pointing out that Ubuntu 7.10 is due out shortly, so if you 
>> want to use Ubuntu, you may want to wait until the new version comes out.
>>
>> I had no problems with installing Ubuntu 7.04 with Orca, but I did have 
>> more RAM available than 384k.
>>
>> Geoff.
>>
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