peaceful coexistence of Speakup and Emacspeak

Janina Sajka janina at afb.net
Sun Mar 10 13:34:17 EST 2002


As it happens, IBM's ViaVoice is not open source.

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Alex Snow wrote:

> If emaxspeak has the software synth, why cant speakup "steal" it? Arn't they
> both Open source?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Hunt <" <wx1g at attbi.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 2:27 AM
> Subject: peaceful coexistence of Speakup and Emacspeak
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have speakup and emacspeak both available on this computer, and am
> > glad of that.  I'm using Emacspeak, now, with the sound card acting as
> > my synthesizer.  One cannot do this, yet, with speakup.  While setting
> > the Linux side of this machine up, I didn't have the sound card
> > working under Linux for quite a while.  It was only with the help of
> > Speakup and this list that I was able to fix this.  If you can have
> > both, do it!
> >
> > -Dave
> >
> > Anna Schneider writes:
> >  > And this is in response to Evonne.
> >  >
> >  > Speak Up and Emacs Speak.  Right now I'm going to try bot.  Maybe I'll
> >  > like one better than the other, though the whole synthesizer thing
> sounds
> >  > messy.  I'll have to think about that.  Can either program run with the
> >  > sound card only?  And I'll go do reading on Emacs where you suggested.
> >
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> >
> 
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