Emacspeak-HOWTO(1).pdf

Installing Emacspeak HOWTO

Jennifer Jobst

James Van Zandt

jrv@vanzandt.mv.com

Revision History

Revision 1.1 July 23, 2002 Revised by: SDS

Updated the maintainer of this document to Sharon Snider, corrected links, and converted to XML.

Revision 1.0

December 4, 2001

Revised by: JEJ

First release

Revision 1.0 DRAFT

November 9, 2001

Revised by: JEJ

DRAFT

Revision Emacspeak HOWTO 1996−2001 Revised by: JVZ

Previously, this document was known as the Emacspeak HOWTO, and was written and maintained by Mr.

James Van Zandt.

This document contains the installation instructions for the Emacspeak audio desktop application for Linux.

Please send any comments, or contributions via e−mail to Sharon Snider . This document will be updated

regularly with new contributions and suggestions.

Installing Emacspeak HOWTO

Table of Contents

1. Legal Notice. ....................................................................................................................................................1

2. Introduction. ....................................................................................................................................................2

3. Documentation Conventions. .........................................................................................................................3

4. Requirements. ..................................................................................................................................................4

4.1. Linux Distributions. ..........................................................................................................................4

4.2. Emacs. ...............................................................................................................................................5

4.3. Background applications. ..................................................................................................................5

4.4. Speech Synthesizers. .........................................................................................................................6

4.4.1. Hardware synthesizers. .....................................................................................................6

4.4.2. Software synthesizers. ......................................................................................................6

5. Installing Emacspeak. .....................................................................................................................................8

6. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). ...........................................................................................................9

7. Additional resources. ....................................................................................................................................12

8. Appendix A: Installing Linux from a DOS machine. ................................................................................13

8.1. Requirments. ...................................................................................................................................13

8.2. Connecting the computers.. .............................................................................................................13

8.3. Installation. .....................................................................................................................................14

9. Appendix B: Installing ViaVoice TTS. ........................................................................................................15

9.1. Downloading ViaVoice. .................................................................................................................15

9.2. Installing ViaVoice RTK. ...............................................................................................................15

9.3. Installing ViaVoice SDK. ...............................................................................................................15

9.4. Testing the installation. ...................................................................................................................16

10. Acknowledgments. ......................................................................................................................................17

1. Legal Notice

document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version

published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections, no Front−Cover Texts, and no

Back−Cover Texts. A copy of the license can be found at http://www.gnu.org/license/fdl.txt .

1. Legal Notice

2. Introduction

Emacspeak is a Linux application that allows users to get synthesized speech output inside the Emacs desktop

environment. Because Emacspeak is actually integrated into the Emacs environment (instead of just running

"on top" of an environment like most screen readers), Emacspeak provides much more context−specific

information than its commercial screen reader counterparts. In this sense, Emacspeak is not a "screen reader,"

but rather a subsystem of Emacs that produces speech output.

Although Emacspeak only works inside Emacs, there are a large number of both built−in and add−on

applications for Emacs that do everything from keeping track of your appointments to playing CDs to coding

HTML. In addition, Emacs has a special command shell mode that can be used to run any command−line

application.

This HOWTO focuses on installing Emacspeak on your Linux system. It does not discuss how to actually use

Emacs or Emacspeak − for information on usage, refer to the Emacspeak User's Guide, available at

http://www.tldp.org/guides.html#espk .

2. Introduction

3. Documentation Conventions

As per the LDP Author Guide, this HOWTO uses the following documentation conventions:

File Names:

file.extension

Commands to be

typed:

command

Command prompt: > (unless otherwise specified)

3. Documentation Conventions

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika: