Good news

[Janina Sajka]

Good news, indeed, Saqib. May I also suggest yasr and eflite, to
go along with flite? Very helpful in circumstances where one has
to have simple console access with software speech.

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Saqib Shaikh wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Having just finished my exams yesterday, I've been talking to Patrick
> Volkerding (aka Mr Slackware). He's very interested in accessibility. As you
> may know he already has Speakup boot-disks in the original distribution.
> 
> I asked him if he would consider adding Emacspeak, and there and then, he
> did it! He asked if you needed other software to use different devices, and
> I told him you needed Emacspeak-SS for other synths. He added this too! And
> then, he added BrlTTY as well, and is considering adding Flite and NFBTrans
> (though maybe not in 8.1).
> 
> So all in all, with Redhat having Emacspeak, Debian coming with
> Emacspeak/Emacspeak-ss/Brltty, and Slackware coming with all of
> Speakup/Emacspeak/Emacspeak-ss/BrlTTY and offering to compile the Doubletalk
> PC driver into the default kernel, Linux and console accessibility really
> does look good (IMHO).
> 
> Just thought I'd let you guys know this, and look forward to Slackware 8.1
> being released.
> 
> Saqib
> 
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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