Re: [orca-list] New audio walkthrough available. installing OpenSuSE 11 independently with new accessibility support.

[Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 gmail com>]

Thanks for the walkthrough.  The talking boot menu is most impressive.  The odd thing I noticed is that the boot menu speaks with espeak but then the default Orca voice is festival.  I wonder why they switch once the system is installed.  It would probably take less space just to settle for one or the other.  I myself am a Ubuntu user.  Hopefully they will add speaking boot menu support soon in it as well.
Thanks and keep those awesome walkthroughs coming.
Storm
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 00:52 +0100, Darragh wrote:
> Garrett, 
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> Installing ESpeak isn't that difficult actually.  Take a look at the sDB article I just posted over on the OpenSuE wiki or look at the instructions on my blog over at www.digitaldarragh.com 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garrett Klein [mailto:garrettklein comcast net] 
> Sent: 04 August 2008 00:46
> To: Darragh
> Cc: Orca List
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] New audio walkthrough available. installing OpenSuSE 11 independently with new accessibility support.
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> Darragh,
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> Great walkthrough. I just wish they'd use espeak by default in orca on 
> the CD. I also want to know how they rigged up the boot manager to speak.
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> Garrett
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> Darragh wrote:
> > Hello all, 
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> > I've recorded a number of audio walk throughs in the past aiming to guide new users through the installation, configuration and use of differing Linux distributions.  The walk throughs are mainly aimed at new users however in the case of this one, I am hoping that as many people will listen as possible to highlight the exceptional work the OpenSuSE developers have done with this release to make it the most accessible release ever! 
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> > The walk through demonstrates the new text to speech functionality found in the boot menu.  Simply boot the Gnome Live CD or the DVD, wait for the beep to signify that the boot menu is displayed, press f9 and you will instantly hear speech feedback when you arrow through the options.  OpenSuSE 11, boot from hard disk failsafe, memory test are normally options we would have to memorise.  In this version we have full access!  Press f2 to choose your language and again, it's spoken! If I'm not mistaken.  This is the only Linux boot menu that has been made so accessible. 
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> > I could rant and rave about how impressed I am but really, I would suggest you take a listen to the walk through and download 11 for your self.  Of course, there are quite a few Yast GTK bugs to iron out and I've not had the time to submit them to bugzilla but I'm very confedent that once their submitted they'll be acted upon very promptly. 
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> > Get the walk through at www.digitaldarragh.com/linux/opensuse-installation-with-orca-walkthrough.mp3
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> > You can see more audio walk through's at www.digitaldarragh.com/linuxat.asp  
> > I've written a post guiding users through the installation of the ESpeak synthesizer in OpenSuSE for use with Orca at http://www.digitaldarragh.com/2008/07/23/InstallingEspeakInOpenSuSE11ForUseWithGnomeSpeech.aspx
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> > I've also written a walk through for installing Speakup, the console screen reader at http://www.digitaldarragh.com/linux/showpage.asp?section=linux&category=accessibility&title=Installing%20Speakup%20in%20OpenSuSE%2010.3
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> > Please do not hesitate to contact me either via this list or privately if you have any questions, comments, suggestions or problems. 
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