Re: followup on Ubuntu (fwd)

2006-07-04 Thread Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson
Greetings On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Ryan Mann wrote: Hello. Somebody said that that there was a way to do an unattended install of Ubuntu with the alternate CD. I've looked on ubuntu.com for the installation manual, but I haven't been able to find it. Where can I get the installation manual or

Re: followup on Ubuntu (fwd)

2006-07-04 Thread Henrik Nilsen Omma
Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: Hello. Somebody said that that there was a way to do an unattended install of Ubuntu with the alternate CD. I've looked on ubuntu.com for the installation manual, but I haven't been able to find it. Where can I get the installation manual or at least

Re: Dectalk 5 test results.

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Al Puzzuoli wrote: i'm not sure how much you could ascertain by listening to the orca demo at csun,but I would be curious as to what your thoughts are as to the speech quality of 4.64 vs that of 5? There is certainly a difference in quality between 4.6.4 and 5.0. The 4.6.4 version used at

Re: Dectalk 5 test results.

2006-07-04 Thread Adam Myrow
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Thomas Ward wrote: There is certainly a difference in quality between 4.6.4 and 5.0. The 4.6.4 version used at the csun conference sounded to me quite a bit like the classic Dectalk voice. With the 5.0 version I noticed the voice sounds like it has a head cold, kind of a

question about odd distro

2006-07-04 Thread Cody
Hello all, I was wondering, after a bit of googling, I found this distro called Ocularis, and it had claimed to be completely accessible to the blind and only for the blind, and yes, it had a desktop, of which I'm guessing gnome. I wanted to try it to see how it was, but couldn't find it

Re: Dectalk 5 test results.

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Adam Myrow wrote: There is also a very annoying bug in the Dectalk 5.0. If you use any of several compound words that start with fire, it pronounces them weirdly with a phantom Euro symbol getting inserted, then proceeds to butcher the rest of the line. Anybody else hear this? No, I

Re: Dectalk 5 test results.

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Adam Myrow wrote: On another note, does Fonix still offer the Dectalk RT for Linux? Yes, they do. However, when I purchased Dectalk 5 I had to jump through hoops on there web site to find the Dectalk RT page, and there site is not accessible for a blind user. I had to actually acquire sighted

Re: question about odd distro

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Cody wrote: Hello all, Hi. I was wondering, after a bit of googling, I found this distro called Ocularis, and it had claimed to be completely accessible to the blind and only for the blind, and yes, it had a desktop, of which I'm guessing gnome. H I have never heard of this