Re: Multiply disabled -- universal access -- speech impairment -- kmouth

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On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 03:57:21PM -0400, Nlomrb Gmail wrote:
> Dear mailing list, especially Jeremy and Gary,
> 
> I told the SLP, that I will see on October 19, that I would try to get espeak and kmouth under a Linux platform.  She is very eager to see them running. 
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> I realized (before the promise) that I have access to a Cygwin window and could download the sources.
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> I am close to getting espeak running and will soon start on kmouth.  
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> I think I may need to compile from source, OR will some one of the pre compiled downloads work?  
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> Depending on the outcome of the meeting with the SLP, my husband and I may be buying a GNU/Linux laptop and installing GNOME 3 if it is not already there.  I need several of the accessibility features plus kmouth.  
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> Does anyone know of a distribution which makes the above paragraph possible?  Convenient?
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> I have a technical background, but in engineering, not computer science.  I do not know C, for example.
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> Rose
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	Hmm.  My system addmin flew in from Dallas late last April; I left
	him alone so as to Stay Out of His Way while he upgraded my 4
	Dell's and one Hp to all Ubuntu Linux.  (Turned out that his wife
	was to be induced on Tuesday so he may have been pre-occupied.)
	The short of it was that the 4th box linked by mt Belkin SOHO KVM 
	is broken.  [[ 4th button ]] and my 2009 Dell abruptly *quit* in 
	July.  

	Oh:  Newegg had a Lenovo on sale for around $260;  I bought that
	and my sysadmin put on Ubuntu.  It is a bit slow, but has a builtin
	camera.  my first.  Once booted, everything works flawlessly.  You 
	might want to go this route.  Else choose the best deal you can
	find.  I'm an agnostic when it comes to hardware.

	I've found that most distributions of Linux are "good" but that
	since Ubuntu is from the UK, there are fewer copyright
	restrictions.  (Also, being severely OLD now I never was into 
	cracking <<whatever>>.  I'm happy to be-happy with what Ubuntu 
	has and/or I can google up. )

	Iwould buy a laptop and overwrite the Win//Dos with a CD that has
	enough of Gnome or KDE or [you choose].   Then (usually on the
	left), right-mouse-click on the SoftwareUpdater.  It should 
	auto-install whatever you select.  I taught myself C back in the
	late 1970's so I installed the cc and c++ and many other
	languages.  --Mostly, I rely on what is already available.   For
	the most part, it won't make any difference whether you use the
	pre-compiled version or compile yourself.  Be aware that you may
	run into trouble if you are missing something that requires some
	library if you try to built it yourself.  

	Anybody else on this list see something misleading?

	gary







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