FYI: Debian, Knoppix/Oralux and Emacspeak
I am a sighted person, but I have some visually impaired friends, so
in free time I experiment with some software for blinds. For your
information I forward my posting to emacspeak list: emacspeak/eflite
installed from Debian unstable package is mute on my computer.
Do you have any suggestions to try?
Regards
Janusz
On 05 Aug 2003 jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień) wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 Kalyan Mukherjea <kalyanm@cal.vsnl.net.in> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > This isn't even a "newbie query"; rather a "wannabie query"!
> >
> > I am a legally blind person who is getting a little bit frustrated about
> > ever getting Emacspeak working on my Linux PC!
>
> Have a look at Oralux:
>
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 Gilles Casse <gcasse@oralux.org> wrote:
>
> > We are happy to announce the start of the Oralux project.
> >
> > Oralux is a GNU/Linux distribution for the blind or visually impaired people.
> > It eases a fast access to GNU/Linux.
> >
> > This distribution doesn't require any installation since it runs from the CD.
> > The audio desktop replaces the graphical user interface for the sighted
> > people.
> >
> > Special thanks to T. V. Raman for Emacspeak and Klaus Knopper for KNOPPIX.
> > Thanks too to people working on accessible Text To Speech softwares : free or
> > low cost softwares.
> > Oralux may start thanks to their work.
> >
> > For more details : http://oralux.org
> > We are looking for free hosters for the iso image (700 MB)
>
>
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> wrote:
>
>
> [...]
>
> > In Debian, as of April 2003, to install Emacspeak using the eflite
> > software text-to-speech synthesizer, type the following in a
> > shell:
> >
> > apt-get install emacs21 emacs21-el emacspeak eflite festival
> >
>
> [...]
>
> > After running `apt-get', you should be able to run Emacspeak by
> > typing
> >
> > emacspeak
> >
> > in a shell.
>
> Unfortunately, not always it is so simple. For example, it does not
> work for me (Knoppix-based Debian unstable).
>
> Do you use OSS or ALSA?
>
> Knoppix by default uses OSS. To have sound in Oralux I have to boot it
> with "alsa" cheatcode.
>
> Best regards to all of you
>
> Janusz
>
> --
> ,
> dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW
> Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
> jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl, jsbien@uw.edu.pl
> http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
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,
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Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
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