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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Janusz S. Bień) wrote: > On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 Kalyan Mukherjea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/ > http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~jsbien/ -- , dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/ http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
