speakup not in Debian was Re: 8.0 problems.

Bear in SFO BearSFO at PacBell.NET
Tue Oct 8 00:32:39 EDT 2002


Piggy back on the EmacsSpeak docs - anyone knows where i can find that, 
hence learn how to EmacsSpeak?

At 08:03 AM 10/7/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi.  Speakup is a set of kernel patches.  Emacspeak is a program running
>under emacs.  Also, speakup is a screen reader while emacspeak is a
>desktop.  The author of emacspeak makes this point very clear in his
>docs.  For kernel patches to be included in Debian, it will have to work
>on all the systems Debian supports.  Do you know how we could put a
>doubletalk into an IBM main frame?
>
>           Kenny
>
>On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 07:58:36PM -0700, Bear in SFO wrote:
> >
> > I definitely agreed that EmacsSpeak and Speakup are different - exactly my
> > point - if they can include EmacsSpeak, why not Speakup too??
> >
> > At 08:26 PM 10/6/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > >On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 05:23:41PM -0700, Bear in SFO wrote:
> > >>
> > >> They do have EmacsSpeak don't they?!  At least that's what I was told at
> > >> Linux World 2002...
> > >
> > >Ok, so now we're talking about people not knowing what the differences
> > >between Speakup and emacspeak are as far as how they work?
> > >That's like saying that only one mail program should be included like 
> pine
> > >or mutt and just only that one.
> > >Yes Speakup and Emacspeak are different but they both have their 
> strengths
> > >and weaknesses. I don't have any experience with Emacspeak, but from what
> > >I've been told you cna basically do all the things with Emacspeak that 
> you
> > >can with Speakup except for the installation of the box.
> > >I haven't done this yet but I will be using Emacspeak soon on my laptop
> > >becuase I don't want to lug the synth around with me when I'm on the 
> go so
> > >will be using that on the laptop with software speech.
> > >So both programs are good nad have their uses and both should stay in the
> > >distribution.
> > >
> > >Tommy
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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