Hi Jonathan, Speakup under Linux is still a highly distribution-specific proposition at this point, though hopefully since it was recently integrated into the mainline kernel that will be changing soon. Your best bet for trying the system out is to install with software speech, as hardware synthesizers and the serial or other interfaces they depend on are becoming notably scarce lately. My favorite Linux distribution with software Speech is ArchLinux, for which a talking installation CD with instructions can be found at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_for_the_blind Those instructions have changed a bit since kernel 2.6.37 came out. You no longer need to install the speakup package, as described there, though you do still need alsa and espeakup. Hope this helps, Zack. On Feb 8, 2011, at 6:56 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote:
> Hmm, I have yet to use a Linux speech package, though I did just load up > FINK for my Macintosh and it does support quite a few OpenSource tools beyond > what is present in the Macintosh. > > In terms of the terminal, I have no issues with line by line as long as the > scroll back buffer is kept to a reasonable size. You do have to "interact" > with the text section. > In terms of controlling the scrollback there are two options > 1. set the scrollback size in the preferences to something less then 100,000 > 2. On occasion type command-K to clear the scroll back. > > Can somebody provide me a recording of how Linux behaves with Speech > technology or point me to such a beast? > > I am having to do some openNMS development and am wondering if I should go > out and by a used box to put the code on rather then using the FINK toolset. > > Jon > > On Feb 7, 2011, at 6:37 PM, William Windels wrote: > >> Hello all, I have a question about the terminal: >> >> In the classic linux distributions that run with bash, there is a >> .bashrc-file where you can add aliases. >> A alias gives the possibility to make a short string=command for a long >> instruction. >> a example can be: >> alias commandtest='this are all the commands that are executed when >> commandtest is typed' >> >> I would like to make aliases in terminal for some commands but I can't find >> the .bashrc-file. >> >> Can someone give me some hints how this works on a mac? >> >> Thanx for your help! >> >> best regards, >> William >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
