The Speakup User's Guide
For Speakup 3.1.2 and Later
By Gene Collins
Updated by others
Last modified on Mon Sep 27 14:26:31 2010
Document version 1.3
Copyright (c) 2005 Gene Collins
Copyright (c) 2008 Samuel Thibault
Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 the Speakup Team
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Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A
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Preface
The purpose of this document is to familiarize users with the user
interface to Speakup, a Linux Screen Reader. If you need instructions
for installing or obtaining Speakup, visit the web site at
http://linux-speakup.org/. Speakup is a set of patches to the standard
Linux kernel source tree. It can be built as a series of modules, or as
a part of a monolithic kernel. These details are beyond the scope of
this manual, but the user may need to be aware of the module
capabilities, depending on how your system administrator has installed
Speakup. If Speakup is built as a part of a monolithic kernel, and the
user is using a hardware synthesizer, then Speakup will be able to
provide speech access from the time the kernel is loaded, until the time
the system is shutdown. This means that if you have obtained Linux
installation media for a distribution which includes Speakup as a part
of its kernel, you will be able, as a blind person, to install Linux
with speech access unaided by a sighted person. Again, these details
are beyond the scope of this manual, but the user should be aware of
them. See the web site mentioned above for further details.
1. Starting Speakup
If your system administrator has installed Speakup to work w