Re: command line tool for this task?

2023-10-16 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I use pine here and alpine for the office, do those count? On Mon, 16 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Tim here. Yep, assuming you use mail(1) to read your mail and have it configured to send mail for you, you should be able create a template and send mail by creating

Re: command line tool for this task?

2023-10-16 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
quot;$4" mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$EMAIL" < Is this program a part of the standard Linux shell therefore likely to be a > part of Shellworld using Ubuntu? > Kare > > > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > > >Have you

Re: command line tool for this task?

2023-10-16 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
On 16/10/23 15:15, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Is this program a part of the standard Linux shell therefore likely to be a part of  Shellworld using Ubuntu? It's standard shell syntax, and has been for decades. ___ Blinux-list

Re: command line tool for this task?

2023-10-16 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Is this program a part of the standard Linux shell therefore likely to be a part of Shellworld using Ubuntu? Kare On Mon, 16 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Have you considered using a here document in a shell script, with variables that can be supplied for those parts

Re: command line tool for this task?

2023-10-16 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Have you considered using a here document in a shell script, with variables that can be supplied for those parts of the text that change? https://www.baeldung.com/linux/heredoc-herestring On 16/10/23 14:45, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Hi folks, Let me begin by stating that my

command line tool for this task?

2023-10-16 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi folks, Let me begin by stating that my access to Linux is a shell service, specifically shellworld.net what I am seeking is a tool likely to be included that lets me create a file I will then use as a gift acknowledgment letter sent via email. What I mean is this. I have the name and

UMAI v0.4.1: Welcome on Ubuntu Mate 23.10!

2023-10-14 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hello everyone, ubuntu Mate 23.10 is a fresh release of the popular Linux distribution, shipping the latest and greatest the Linux accessibility infrastructure can offer. I'm happy to announce my umai script: https://github.com/RastislavKish/umai for auto-setting-up UM for accessibility, now

Re: My Linux installation decision, and some questions?

2023-10-09 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
allot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 9 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > You should make sure your user is part of the brlapi group. Since this a USB > display, it should automatically be detected, and then work in orca, o

Re: My Linux installation decision, and some questions?

2023-10-09 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
You should make sure your user is part of the brlapi group. Since this a USB display, it should automatically be detected, and then work in orca, once you check the box in the braille tab of preferences. - Original Message - From: Linux for blind general discussion To: Linux for blind

Re: My Linux installation decision, and some questions?

2023-10-09 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
lease use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 9 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hello, I just wanted to let everyone know what I finally decided regarding my > choice of distribution. I decided on Fedora Linux, this is because this is > what I orig

My Linux installation decision, and some questions?

2023-10-09 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hello, I just wanted to let everyone know what I finally decided regarding my choice of distribution. I decided on Fedora Linux, this is because this is what I originally learned some of my hopefully not Q ancient knowledge in terms of using Linux. I wanted to briefly take a moment and explain

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-09 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
    The pipewire-pulse process is a replacement for pulse audio functionality. On 10/9/23 03:54, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Hi, The default setting in Bookworm is to have in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf: AudioOutputMethod "pulse" Pipewire is not li

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-09 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
As I understand it, pipewire hit maturity early enough to be included in Debian 12 aka Bookworm, but too late to replace pulse as the default, and one has to manually install pipewire and configure Debian to use it instead of pulse(though I suppose its possible the Expert mode of the Debian

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-09 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
pipewire can be used in this context (which I do not know), this is not out of the box. Cheers, Didier Le 09/10/2023 à 04:34, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > d    I think Bookworm uses Pipewire, so on my system there is a process called > pipewire-pulse.  I don't think you have to have puls

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
these other methods. Cheers, Didier Le 08/10/2023 à 15:37, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :     In order to have speech in the text consoles, you need to make sure Speakup or BRLTTY or another screenreader is active.  It works just fine with Speakup. You may want to read the Debian

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Storm_Dragon ought to be the one to fix that deficiency since he wrote fenrir. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Sun, 8 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discus

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Certainly those Debian instructions are interesting reading-and-guidance, but while there is 1 mention of Fenrir as a link to where Debian packages are, there seems no adequate description as there is for Speakup. Chime ___ Blinux-list mailing list

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
. Cheers, Didier Le 08/10/2023 à 15:37, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : >     In order to have speech in the text consoles, you need to make sure > Speakup > or BRLTTY or another screenreader is active.  It works just fine with > Speakup.  > You may want to

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
#Speech_Support ORCA will be on console 7 by default, and you can easily switch to a text console and have both working at the same time. On 10/7/2023 1:54 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: In a seemingly endless trek to get both Windows 11 and debian Linux from a 3-year-old laptop I

Re: opensuse tumbleweed

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Aptitude includes fields for compressed(persumably the size of the .deb) and uncompressed(presumably how much space the installed package will take up) sizes for each package, but that's just for that package I can see the total installed size of a package on my rpm-based Fedora system, but I

Re: Debian with Orca

2023-10-08 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
On 10/7/23 19:54, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: So, my primary question is am I missing something about the command consoles? The mate terminal seems to be working but it's not quite the same as a command-line console. If you are on a laptop, the FN key might be playing

Debian with Orca

2023-10-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
In a seemingly endless trek to get both Windows 11 and debian Linux from a 3-year-old laptop I recently acquired, I had been trying to install debian Linux with orca on to a large-capacity thumb drive. The debian bullseye installs were taking as long as twelve hours or so to do and when I finally

Re: opensuse tumbleweed

2023-10-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Now I'm curious... Is there a way to get a report on any of the following?: -The Installed size of a package and all it's dependencies. -The download size of a package and all it's dependencies. -The install size of a package, its dependencies, and its recommends. -The download size of a

Re: opensuse tumbleweed

2023-10-07 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
the screenreader together with speechd and all other dependencies is hardly noticeable. Best regards Rastislav Dňa 7. 10. 2023 o 4:49 Linux for blind general discussion napísal(a): > Your premise assumes that internet access is already connected and > available on the computer where the iso is r

Re: opensuse tumbleweed

2023-10-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
And really, is space really that much of a premium on install media? I mean, flash storage is so cheap that it's hard to find anything smaller than 32GB these days, and you have to go back like 20 years to find machines that are limited to CD... and worse come to worse, you can just put extra

Re: opensuse tumbleweed

2023-10-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Your premise assumes that internet access is already connected and available on the computer where the iso is running and Orca is to be installed. Unfortunately this is not every computer, especially those that must connect to wifi or any other type of internet services that require usernames,

opensuse tumbleweed

2023-10-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
An idea for all linux distributions with orca in their repositories and not enough space to have it on their install disks. Put a question up on the screen and allow a reasonable number of seconds to pass to get an answer. No answer, download and install orca and all of its dependencies, run

Re: Intro.

2023-10-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
either. So the laptop went into the trash since it was no longer any use to anyone. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discus

Re: Intro.

2023-10-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
r even slightly more advanced-ones, there are indeed many more. Best regards Rastislav Dňa 6. 10. 2023 o 12:43 Linux for blind general discussion napísal(a): > Hi, > > answer in line. > > Foreword: I hesitated to answer: as I already wrote Slint is not an option for > ARM

Re: Intro.

2023-10-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Fri, 6 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi, > > answer in line. > > Foreword: I hesitated to answer: as I already wrote Slint is not an option for >

Re: Very minimal graphical environment

2023-10-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I worked some years back on a menu system that had some scripts that would start a very small window manager and run Orca and the browser, email, whatever required a graphical environment. This system was designed to be self-contained and distro-agnostic, although as I recall it used jwm as the

Re: Orca and Braille

2023-10-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
On 6/10/23 02:37, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Yes. Orca Screen reader supports braille with the aid of BRLTTY and its BRLAPI library. If I remember well, you have to run BRLTTY then Orca to be working correctly. Normally, your systemd configuration should be set up to run BRLTTY

Re: Intro.

2023-10-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, answer in line. Foreword: I hesitated to answer: as I already wrote Slint is not an option for ARM CPUs. Anyway, here goes for x86_64 aka AMD64 users... Le 06/10/2023 à 11:44, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > When you boot it, it will put you in a desktop much like Wind

Re: Very minimal graphical environment

2023-10-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
failed me yet, while qtile broke my config majorly earlier On 10/6/23 11:22, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Hi list, I am forced to become a graphical environment user so I will begin my adventure with Orca. I would like to have a very minimal installation of such environment. I want

Very minimal graphical environment

2023-10-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi list, I am forced to become a graphical environment user so I will begin my adventure with Orca. I would like to have a very minimal installation of such environment. I want to have complete setup wich is quite enough for Orca and web browser such as Chromium or Firefox. Can you recommend

Re: Orca and Braille

2023-10-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hello, I heard something along the lines of make sure xbrlapi is in your autostart and make sure it starts before orca, but I could be wrong. Harley On 06/10/2023 07:37, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Hi everyone Yes. Orca Screen reader supports braille with the aid of BRLTTY

Re: Intro.

2023-10-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
be, especially if you are older like you said you are. Jace On 10/4/23 12:18, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Hi guys, so glad to be joining this group. I know nothing about Linux platform but would like to try Linux for myself. The problem is I wouldn’t know which version to try out

Orca and Braille

2023-10-06 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi everyone Yes. Orca Screen reader supports braille with the aid of BRLTTY and its BRLAPI library. If I remember well, you have to run BRLTTY then Orca to be working correctly. Greetings. Artur Rutkowski ___ Blinux-list mailing list

Re: Intro.

2023-10-05 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
If you don't enjoy learning new skills, then Linux may not be a good choice, unless you have someone available to set it up, customize and maintain it for you. I disagree. This certainly was the case in the late 1990's and very early 2000's, when Linux was pretty much just DOS on steroids and

Re: Intro.

2023-10-05 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
skills in the 1990s. This knowledge is no less relevant today than it was then. It may still be applicable if I'm using a computer thirty years from now. Investments in learning pay real rewards. On 5/10/23 18:00, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Hello Billy, yes, it is perfectly

Re: Intro.

2023-10-05 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
, and most of the things don't require reading through a pile of books and manpages (man is a short version of manual, in case you wondered) to setup. That's just my personal take Best regards Rastislav Dňa 5. 10. 2023 o 8:53 Linux for blind general discussion napísal(a): > Hi Rastis

Re: Intro.

2023-10-05 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hello, I am sorry but Slint is not available for an ARM architecture, only x86_64 Other than, to know more: https://slint.fr Cheers, Didier Slint maintainer didieratslintdotfr Le 05/10/2023 à 20:59, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > Slint is an iso and is available as a torr

Re: Intro.

2023-10-05 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
5 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi is this a bistro, or a package that can be downloaded? If this is > package can it. Run under Ubuntu, or different. > > > > > On Oct 5, 2023, at 16:58, Linux for blind general discussion > > wrote: >

Re: Intro.

2023-10-05 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
about the man command or info info and read about the info command. You can also do info emacs and read about emacs. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, Linux

Re: Intro.

2023-10-05 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I'm guessing bistro was autocurrupt's doing. Anyways, Slint is a offshoot of Slackware, a distro notorious for being difficult for new Linux users to wrangle, and because of that Slint is a bit polarizing among Blind Linux Users. If I'm not mistaken, the name Slint comes from Slackware

Re: Intro.

2023-10-05 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi is this a bistro, or a package that can be downloaded? If this is package can it. Run under Ubuntu, or different. > On Oct 5, 2023, at 16:58, Linux for blind general discussion > wrote: > > I'm going to recommend slint and I recommend when you install slint to > s

RE: Intro.

2023-10-05 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hello, I can tell the difference between light and dark. I have used all > windows OS systems from way back windows7, Billy > > Sent from Mail for Windows >

Re: Detox or other similar tools

2023-10-05 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
of California Bakersfield chapter. amateur radio, call sign, kd0iko. > On Oct 5, 2023, at 10:31, Linux for blind general discussion > wrote: > > Oh thanks. That should work. > > - Original Message - > From: Linux for blind general discussion > To: Linux for

Re: Detox or other similar tools

2023-10-05 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Oh thanks. That should work. - Original Message - From: Linux for blind general discussion To: Linux for blind general discussion Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 12:08:42 +0200 (SAST) Subject: Re: Detox or other similar tools > You could use rename with a regexp. > e.g. > rename s'/blab

Re: Detox or other similar tools

2023-10-05 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
You could use rename with a regexp. e.g. rename s'/blablabla//'g *_bla*txt will remove blablabla from all *_bla*txt files. Willem On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: I want to strip a directory of file names of certain characters, like these. : ? ? Detox will do

how to reinicialize Waydroid?

2023-10-05 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi I downloaded the accessible waydroid script from Jenux Project, but I downloaded vendor and system as Vanilla, so I don't see Google play and all other Google services, so I want to try download not Vanilla, but Gapps. To do this, I must delete previously downloaded vendor and system

Detox or other similar tools

2023-10-05 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I want to strip a directory of file names of certain characters, like these. : ? ? Detox will do that, but it removes spaces, commas and a bunch of other stuff. I just want to have a list of characters removed, not all punctuation. Is there a tool that will do this for me? Thanks.

RE: Intro.

2023-10-05 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hello, I can tell the difference between light and dark. I have used all windows OS systems from way back windows7, Billy Sent from Mail for Windows From: Linux for blind general discussion Sent: 04 October 2023 12:53 To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: Re: Intro. A couple

RE: Intro.

2023-10-05 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi Rastislav, This is so helpful indeed and the linkswill come in really handy. Is it possible for me to tun Linux with windows on the same computer system?, Billy Sent from Mail for Windows From: Linux for blind general discussion Sent: 04 October 2023 16:10 To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject

osdisks.com has closed

2023-10-04 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
This is unfortunate for the people with low grade internet services and low grade provider equipment since they're not going to be able to download and install linux isos of any significant size without the equipment or network corrupting those isos. A need remains for sites like osdisk or any

Re: Intro.

2023-10-04 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
of supported UM versions. Have a lot of fun, and the best experience! Best regards Rastislav Dňa 4. 10. 2023 o 13:18 Linux for blind general discussion napísal(a): > Hi guys, so glad to be joining this group. I know nothing about Linux > platform but would like to try Linux for

Re: Intro.

2023-10-04 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi. > Check out Linux Mint Mate > https://linuxmint.com > > > > On

Re: Intro.

2023-10-04 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi. Check out Linux Mint Mate https://linuxmint.com > On Oct 4, 2023, at 7:18 AM, Linux for blind general discussion > wrote: > > Hi guys, so glad to be joining this group. I know nothing about Linux > platform but would like to try Linux for myself. The problem is I wouldn’

Re: Intro.

2023-10-04 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Good morning everyone. I am not new to Lennox. But I have a new arm based > computer. I am trying to decide between two distributions. Which is going to > be easier to install orca on? Two arch 64 meaning the arch architectu

Re: Intro.

2023-10-04 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
of the blind of California Bakersfield chapter. amateur radio, call sign, kd0iko. > On Oct 4, 2023, at 11:18, Linux for blind general discussion > wrote: > > Hi guys, so glad to be joining this group. I know nothing about Linux > platform but would like to try Linux for myself. T

Re: Intro.

2023-10-04 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi guys, so glad to be joining this group. I know nothing about Linux > platform but would like to try

Intro.

2023-10-04 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi guys, so glad to be joining this group. I know nothing about Linux platform but would like to try Linux for myself. The problem is I wouldn’t know which version to try out first and that is one reason for joining this group. I am a blind pensioner living in Scotland UK. IF you could provide

Re: arch-installer accessibility

2023-10-03 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
To get espeak help press capslock and f1. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Tue, 3 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > On the keypad, press

Re: arch-installer accessibility

2023-10-03 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Tue, 3 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi, > > where can I get list of speakup hotkeys? I am unable to get light tracking

Re: arch-installer accessibility

2023-10-03 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, where can I get list of speakup hotkeys? I am unable to get light tracking mode. Thanks a lot, Pavel Dne 01. 10. 23 v 14:13 Linux for blind general discussion napsal(a): That's how I installed archlinux. To get speakup going on archlinux when you boot and hear the tones, downarrow

Re: arch-installer accessibility

2023-10-02 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
espeakup That achieves the same result if you get into a normal boot, and don't want to reboot and go through the boot disk selection if it is giving you trouble On 10/1/23 13:13, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: That's how I installed archlinux. To get speakup going on archlinux

Re: arch-installer accessibility

2023-10-01 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Sun, 1 Oct 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi, > > Because I am an absolutelly UEFI idiot and I don't understand how to install > it with commands, I want to install Arch Linux to my Acer l

arch-installer accessibility

2023-10-01 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, Because I am an absolutelly UEFI idiot and I don't understand how to install it with commands, I want to install Arch Linux to my Acer laptop, which no more supports legaci using arch-install script. But the script is menu based and the menu items are in single line. So has speakup the

working now was Re: RHVoice under Fedora question

2023-09-27 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Dne 27.09.2023 v 16:08 Linux for blind general discussion napsal(a): Hi, thanks a lot. Now, I can successfuly do scons command. But the sudo scons install command installs RHVoice to /local or somewhere including /local and Ia am unable to get it working in Speech Dispatcher. So my question

Re: RHVoice under Fedora question

2023-09-27 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
7 Sep 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Hi, > > thanks a lot. Now, I can successfuly do scons command. But the sudo scons > install command installs RHVoice to /local or somewhere including /local and > Ia am unable to get it working in Speech Dispatcher. So my ques

Re: RHVoice under Fedora question

2023-09-27 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
source? I think this is Fedora specific, because Ubuntu, Debian and Arch Linux work as expected. Thanks a lot, Pavel Dne 26. 09. 23 v 23:39 Linux for blind general discussion napsal(a): Hi! On 9/24/23 21:29, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Hi, I want to install RHVoice from

Re: RHVoice under Fedora question

2023-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi! On 9/24/23 21:29, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Hi, I want to install RHVoice from source under Fedora, but I have a problem identifiing names of the correct dependencies. Ubuntu says: apt-get install gcc g++ pkg-config scons libpulse-dev libspeechd-dev So gcc and g

Re: Can I Translate Audio Among Languages?

2023-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Well Martin: certainly while there are English web-sites which have news from this region, I would rather translate Armenian streams to English audio-and save as an mp3 or dot aac, the same way I would save any audio newscast. Lucky, in many cases, I can now save text stories minus toolbars

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Linux for blind general discussion writes: > Don't press enter. Wait for the three tones then wait for speech to > happen. I did that all be it accidentally the first time. Nothing at all but the radio showed enough activity to indicate that it had gone on and was doing other stuff

Re: Can I Translate Audio Among Languages?

2023-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
it. Linux for blind general discussion writes: > Hi Karen: Honestly, I had not considered which voice or how that would > work. I did write Jeremy directly-and-told him that the program he > suggested is on a site which requires javascript, so I mostly get a blank > page

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
always get the last version of alsa-info.sh like this: wget http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh Feel free to send me the file alsa-info.sh directly: didier at slint dot fr Cheers, Didier Le 26/09/2023 à 15:48, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > I am sorry, but I have bad n

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
ed in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Tue, 26 Sep 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > > On 26/9/23 09:48, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > > I did make several later tries and confirmed

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
On 26/9/23 09:48, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: I did make several later tries and confirmed that this lap top's native sound interface is like a lot of native sound interfaces in that it is too proprietary for it's own good. A few suggestions: 1. Try a very recent

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Don't press enter. Wait for the three tones then wait for speech to happen. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Tue, 26 Sep 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrot

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-26 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
information I can provide to help, I am glad to do so. Linux for blind general discussion writes: > Hi Martin, > > sorry for the mistake in the Handbook. Of course I should have written: > > wget https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-15.0/iso/slint64-15.0-5.iso > wget > https

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
sourceforge-net only stores an old 32-bit version. Didier Le 25/09/2023 à 16:29, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > That's how that's done on sourceforge.net. The webmaster would have to do > that, and now sourceforge.net is out of date on latest version for some &g

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
that and/or make a link like slint64-15.0-latest.iso Cheers, Didier Le 25/09/2023 à 14:55, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > I am not sure what is wrong but everything looks normal in the > image-getting phase. I lifted this right out of the handbook: > > wget https://

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
shelt 1940. On Mon, 25 Sep 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > That download is happening now. It's the same url except that > the version number now is 15.5 which is fine and explains what is > happening. What I copied from the handbook is 15.0. I wish all > p

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
latest_version and that designation would always describe whatever version was most current. Martin Linux for blind general discussion writes: > Have you tried: > https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-15.0/iso/slint64-15.0-5.iso ___ Blinux-list m

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Have you tried: https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-15.0/iso/slint64-15.0-5.iso -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 25 Sep 2023, Linux for blind general discussion w

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
. On 25/9/23 07:38, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: I appreciate all this information because I got in a bit of a hurry and ended up at the wrong site and the web monster showed me a 3-GB image for slint which I downloaded. The download went fine and the image flowed like good wine

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
with 404's all round. Martin Linux for blind general discussion writes: > Hi Martin, > > to clarify, I have provided an image of an installed system as you > requested: > https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2.1/minislint/README.minislint > but it was for a previous Slint v

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-25 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
for my time zone. Older Windows systems set the CMOS clock based on local time so this one is new enough to do it the right way. Linux for blind general discussion writes: > Hi Martin, > > to clarify, I have provided an image of an installed system as you > requested: > https://sla

RHVoice under Fedora question

2023-09-24 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi, I want to install RHVoice from source under Fedora, but I have a problem identifiing names of the correct dependencies. Ubuntu says: apt-get install gcc g++ pkg-config scons libpulse-dev libspeechd-dev So gcc and g++ are ok, but I can not find the correct package names for other

Re: Can I Translate Audio Among Languages?

2023-09-23 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi Karen: Honestly, I had not considered which voice or how that would work. I did write Jeremy directly-and-told him that the program he suggested is on a site which requires javascript, so I mostly get a blank page. Chime ___ Blinux-list mailing

Re: Can I Translate Audio Among Languages?

2023-09-23 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi Chime, Your answer here has me a touch confused. If I follow, you want to say take an audio file of a newscast, feed it through this program, and have it produce English audio..using what voice source? Kare On Sat, 23 Sep 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Thank you, I had

Re: Can I Translate Audio Among Languages?

2023-09-23 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I suspect there's nothing readily available in terms of direct automated audio-to-audio translation, even in the paid realm and that the best that can currently be done is speech-to-text on the input stream, machine translation on the outputted text, and then text-to-speech on the translated

Re: Can I Translate Audio Among Languages?

2023-09-23 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Thank you, I had to install python3-whisper. Will examine it. I would prefer if the translation would also come back as audio. Thanks again. Chime ___ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com

Re: Can I Translate Audio Among Languages?

2023-09-23 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
are available for it, though. - Original Message - From: Linux for blind general discussion To: Blinux Discussion List Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 16:22:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Can I Translate Audio Among Languages? > Hi All: Ideally, it would be wonderful if I could bringup a stream, lets

Can I Translate Audio Among Languages?

2023-09-23 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Hi All: Ideally, it would be wonderful if I could bringup a stream, lets say in Armenian, but have it play it for me in English. Otherwise, if one couldn't do that live, I could install some software in Debian-and-feed it a recording. In reality, I am a news-junky, but there seem no Armenian

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-23 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
as expected, including detection of the braille display. On 22/9/23 18:20, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: Hi Martin, to clarify, I have provided an image of an installed system as you requested: https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-14.2.1/minislint/README.minislint

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-22 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
in an USB enclosure) as indicated in: https://slint.fr/en/HandBook.html#_install_slint Cheers, Didier Le 22/09/2023 à 22:56, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > Thanks. I've wanted to give slint a try and this would be a > perfect time to try it. > > Martin > Linux fo

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-22 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
Thanks. I've wanted to give slint a try and this would be a perfect time to try it. Martin Linux for blind general discussion writes: > I think slint can fill the bill for you. You can put slint on a flash > drive if you need to do that and have it install f

Re: Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-22 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
2 Sep 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > I have a HP Pavilion lap top system which my wife was using to > run Windows 11 and it is presently failing to boot but > fortunately for this list, that is not what I am really here to > post about. > > What I think

Talking Images for 64-bit Laptop

2023-09-22 Thread Linux for blind general discussion
I have a HP Pavilion lap top system which my wife was using to run Windows 11 and it is presently failing to boot but fortunately for this list, that is not what I am really here to post about. What I think I need is a bootable version of linux which is similar in behavior to the many

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