Speak Freely to be discontinued

Alex Snow alex_snow at h14me.homelinux.net
Fri Aug 1 08:32:59 EDT 2003


so does www.fourmilab.ch. in fact it has the latest version and 
speakfreely.org still has 7.2
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 07:26:02PM -0400, 
David Poehlman wrote:
> http://www.speakfreely.org has the windows version available.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "erik burggraaf" <erik at erik-burggraaf.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 7:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Speak Freely to be discontinued
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Ventriloe is another one that flies under both major os'.  So, if you decide
> not to continue developing your distro of speak freely, users won't be
> totally stuck.
> 
> Insidentally, I didn't know speak freely worked under windows.  Where would
> one go about getting the windows version?  Unless the blind linux comunity
> is going ventriloe, in which case I'm there, smile.
> 
> Erik
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Adam Myrow <amyrow at midsouth.rr.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 6:38 PM
> Subject: Speak Freely to be discontinued
> 
> 
> > This is weird.  The author of Speak Freely, John Walker, seemed to have
> > gained a revived interest in his program, set up a web forum, and the
> > activity on the mailing list was up.  Now, he's declaring it dead as of
> > January 15, 2004.  He put the announcement up at :
> > http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/eol
> >
> > I guess it's up to the Speakup community to maintain our version and keep
> > adding features.  The only question is whether we should try and merge in
> > the 7.6A code into our version?  It has some improvements like supporting
> > GPG as well as the older PGP for encryption, but our version has the audio
> > blending feature as well as the nice features for the Speakup reflector.
> > It's the only voice client that works on both Windows and Unix/Linux that
> > I know of.
> >
> >
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> >
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