edbrowse in Stable

2013-12-07 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi All, I was wondering if I could find out why the edbrowse package isn’t in stable? Forgive me if this is an obvious question, I’m just wondering if there's record somewhere of why it was removed. It’s in testing and unstable and oldstable, so… :) Thanks for any input, Zack. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Successful installation with software speech on MacBOok Pro

2013-12-06 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi All, I just wanted to thank you guys for the superb job you’ve done with the implementation of software speech during installation. I was able to install from the Netinst CD onto my macbook Pro, which I wasn’t expecting to be accessible, let alone almost seamless. My one question for the mom

Re: Using Espeakup on something other than the default card

2010-12-15 Thread Zachary Kline
You might also want to look into a package named asoundconf. This helps selecting non-default cards, among other things. Best, Zack On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Rynhardt Kruger wrote: The only way (I know of) to accomplish this is to do: export ALSA_CARD=1 espeakup Replacing 1 with the index of yo

Re: Activation of Speech Dispatcher under squeeze

2010-09-29 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, I suggest that one way to ensure a sane configuration of speech-dispatcher in .speech-dispatcher is to run spd-conf from the shell. The configuration file actually needs to be in .speech-dispatcher/conf, which that script will take care of for you among other things. Try that and see how it

Re: contracted braille and orca

2010-02-06 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi All, I would be interested in this as well. The installed orca package over here claims to support contracted braille, but when I check the checkbox there are no tables to choose from. I looked in the liblouis data directory and there seem to be many. I'm using orca from unstable at the mo

Software speech in Debian installer

2008-07-15 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, I was wondering about any possibility of putting software speech of some kind into the Debian installer along with Speakup. I realize it isn't a trivial undertaking, but in my opinion it would really help people who aren't fortunate enough to have hardware speech. I don't know how this mig