speakup 1.0 and slackware 8.0

[Gregory Nowak]

Yes, but I'd much rather hit arrow, hit the enter key or click a virtual mouse as opposed to typping commands at a prompt.
Greg


On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 05:46:35PM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Thomas Ward wrote:
> 
> > Well, I'd have the entire manual entry converted into a text file, save it,
> > and then if you wanted it in braille you'd have to configure a braille
> > printer under Linux.
> > If you want it in grade two then you'd have to setup something like megadots
> > for dos using the dosemu program.
> 
> I'm pretty sure NFBTRANS will do this under linux.
> 
> > Speakup is not a bad tts app,
> 
> Speakup is not a TTS ap, it is a screen reader.  Tuxtalk, festival and
> viavoice are TTS aps.
> 
> > but it's biggest draw back is it will not give
> > you any speech access to the x-Windows server, x applications, or anything
> > with alot of graphical widgits.
> 
> And the biggest drawback of a car is that it doesn't float on water.
> C'mon!  Speakup was never designed or intended to provide access to the X
> windows environment, just as ASAP, vocaleyes and such don't provide access
> to MS windows.  I gotta say, I don't really understand all the desire for
> access to X.  It's not like DOS and windows.  DOS was an 8 bit OS with many
> limitations, whereas Win32 is a 32 bit app with alleged multitasking, etc.
> X provides no functional advantages over the text console as all the power
> is in the OS itself, which is where it should be.  X is a memory and
> resource hog and I know many sighted people who don't use it or use it
> minimally.  OK, so there are a few aps that only work in X, but those are
> diminishing rapidly as text users take up the cause.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
> 
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