speach

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

mike coulombe wrote:
> Hi I got the image for 6.06.
> I was able to get speach, but anything I pressed
> like minimize stoped it.
> I couldn't get it back unles I restart the computer.
>   

I've not encountered this particular problem (anyone else?). The known 
issues is that gnopernicus sometimes fails to start on first boot of the 
Live CD (logging out and back in fixes that) and that it simply works 
poorly with some applications. -- Yes, 6.06 is the latest version, 
released officially today :)

Unfortunately none of the install CDs (desktop or alternate) allow for 
an independent install for blind users at the moment. We hope to get it 
working for both versions for the next release though (due out in October).

If you have a spare hard drive or partition I would recommend that you 
try installing 6.06 (with some help) because the assistive technology 
features are known to work better on an installed system.

An installed version will also give you the opportunity to try the next 
generation screen reader, named Orca (ref: http://live.gnome.org/Orca), 
which promises to be very powerful. We are likely to use that as 
standard for our next release.

You might also want to try Oralux, which is a specialised distribution 
for speech and braille output: http://oralux.org

- Henrik