OperaUSB with Voice in Linux using Wine
Saturday, 12. April 2008, 20:56:13
My favorite feature of Opera it's that it can read the page to you while you do other things.
Unfortunately this feature is not available in Linux. But I was able to get it to work on the Windows OperaUsb version.
You need an USB stick for this and access to a windows computer, and wine installed and configured (I have it set to windows2000 on mine).
Install Opera@USB on your usb memory stick and run it in windows once. If you like speed dial set it up here.
Copy the whole folder to you Linux computer.
Use "wine operausb.exe" on a terminal in the same location as the file.
You can then hit the microphone icon or go to the preference section and download the voice plug-in. Quit and restart the application using the step above.
Almost everything worked including the latest version of flash and the voice plug-in (I don't have a microphone so I don't know if it can be used for voice navigation but it read pages perfectly).
Trying to change or edit or set the speed dial websites crashes the application.
You can hide opera (at least in gnome) to the application bar but it will look like a wine taskbar icon (ugly...).
Unfortunately this feature is not available in Linux. But I was able to get it to work on the Windows OperaUsb version.
You need an USB stick for this and access to a windows computer, and wine installed and configured (I have it set to windows2000 on mine).
Install Opera@USB on your usb memory stick and run it in windows once. If you like speed dial set it up here.
Copy the whole folder to you Linux computer.
Use "wine operausb.exe" on a terminal in the same location as the file.
You can then hit the microphone icon or go to the preference section and download the voice plug-in. Quit and restart the application using the step above.
Almost everything worked including the latest version of flash and the voice plug-in (I don't have a microphone so I don't know if it can be used for voice navigation but it read pages perfectly).
Trying to change or edit or set the speed dial websites crashes the application.
You can hide opera (at least in gnome) to the application bar but it will look like a wine taskbar icon (ugly...).
