Hello, Ubuntu Lucid uses Speech Dispatcher 0.6, and Maverick uses 0.7.0. The current release of Speech Dispatcher is 0.7.1. To provide Ubuntu users with more options to run stable release of Speech Dispatcher, and thus hopefully improve their user experience, I created a PPA called ppa:dusek/spd, that contains package of Speech Dispatcher 0.7.1. To be precise, the package is for Ubuntu, both Lucid and Maverick, and both i386 and amd64.
To use them, do: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dusek/spd sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade then if you want the change to take effect immediately, logout. If upgrading from Speech Dispatcher 0.6, you better do a full reboot. Please let me know of any problems you run into with these packages, or any suggestions you might have as to how best offer Speech Dispatcher to Ubuntu users through PPA. As said, important issues reported will be fixed with a patch (when available) in the stable PPA, and PPA-related suggestions will also be gladly implemented. (Ubuntu developer GURUs: please, where should the issues be reported and discussed? My (maintainer's) addres? Or does Launchpad support PPA bugreports?) I am planning to continue offering the future Speech Dispatcher stable releases in the ppa:dusek/spd PPA. Best regards, Boris Dusek Brailcom, o.p.s. P.S.: The ppa:dusek/spd PPA is a different PPA from the one I posted before, ppa:dusek/spd-test, in that it will contain only the stable releases of Speech Dispatcher (e.g. 0.7.0, 0.7.1, 0.7.2 and so on), with the necessary patches for critical issues found. If you added the ppa:dusek/spd-test, I advise you to remove it, since it is my experimental PPA (I will probably unpublish it). You can remove the testing PPA with sudo rm dusek-spd-test-lucid.list or sudo rm dusek-spd-test-maverick.list depending on your release. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility