Speakup Modified Fedora

Welcome to the Speakup Modified Fedora Distribution Home Page.

Announcing SpeakupModified's Fedora 9, "Sulphur,"

We're pleased to offer our repository of rpm packages and installation ISO images for Fedora 9, "Sulphur." For the first time ever Speakup Modified kernels and installation media are available from the Speakup Modified Fedora Distribution before the official Fedora release from Red Hat. While we believe there is every reason to upgrade to Fedora 9 today--especially as it includes Firefox 3 with the very latest in accessible browsing for your web surfing pleasure. .

Getting Firefox 3

The Speakup Modified is no longer building Firefox 3 packages because Fedora is building them for Fedora 9. Furthermore, we no longer recommend that users of Fedora 8 retrieve Firefox from Fedora Development because the number of files required to make that work has grown far too large and unwieldy. In truth the simple and very satisfactory solution is to upgrade to Fedora 9, which is arguably the most accessible Fedora yet.

IMPORTANT:.Please note that the x86_64 builds of Firefox 3 do not work with Orca accessibility. Instead, install the i386 rpm on your system for now. This problem is reflected in Red Hat bug #445550. You may also want to add John Gunderson's Firefox 3 extension providing support for the new W3C ARIA technologies.

IMPORTANT: With the release of the SpeakupModified Fedora 9 and its significant accessibility enhancements over previous versions, we no longer offer installation media for previous versions of the SpeakupModified Fedora.

Sulphur & Werewolf Audio Caution

Beginning with Fedora 8 and continuing in Fedora 9, Red Hat uses something called Pulse Audio in Werewolf. We recommend you remove both pulseaudio and alsa-plugins-pulseaudio for now. Pulse audio manages all audio on Fedora, but doesn't start until you login on the gui desktop. Removing pulseaudio and alsa-plugins-pulseaudio with a command like the following fixes this problem:

You can alternatively resolve this issue more elegantly by editing the file /etc/alsa/alsa.conf and commenting one line as follows:



Please consult the excellent Pulse Audio web site for additional Pulse Audio documentation:



While we have not yet tested this ourselves, it appears that running Pulse Audio in system-wide daemon mode, as described on the Pulse Audio web site, may also resolve the problem.

Tiresias Large-Print Fonts

Fedora 9 includes the Tiresias large-print fonts recently released under the GPL by the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) in the United Kingdom. If you benefit from large-print, check out the Tiresias font options anywhere you can choose fonts on the Fedora desktop--including in Open Office!


Fedora 9: Sulphur

Now Available! We're pleased to announce 32-bit, 64-bit, and sourcecode installation media for the Speakup Modified Fedora 9, "Sulphur." This marks the earliest ever availability of Speakup Modified kernels and installation media for any Fedora release..

Follow this link to Download Sulphur modified with Speakup, our version of the Fedora Project's Fedora 9 Linux distribution.

We expect CheapBytes will soon offer our Fedora 9 DVD through the mail. Check our web site often for updates. Meanwhile, if you MUST have cd rom media, you can still obtain our edition of Moonshine from Cheap Bytes.

Supported By TTSynth

NEWS FLASH!The most requested synthetic voice ever is now available for Linux and it works with the SpeakupModified Fedora--including Moonshine, Werewolf, and Sulphur--in both the console and the graphical desktop. Capital Accessibility invites you to use the Speakup Modified with TTSynth, the premier software Text To Speech synthesizer for Linux now available for secure purchase and immediate download. TTSynth's available Languages include Chinese, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.

How To Stay Current Using Yum

The SpeakupModified supports yum to help you keep your Fedora fashionably up to date. Read our Quick Tips On Using Yum to learn how to stay abreast of the latest in Speakup Modified packages the easy Fedora way.

Or Download Our Sulphur RPMs

Update your Speakup Modified Fedora kernels, and obtain other software, from our on line RPM repository: