Talking bios

[Alex Snow]

that would depend on the speaker. some newer machines barely have a pc 
speaker so that would make speach unclear. some older machines I've 
seen have really good pc speakers. another idea would be to pipe the 
speaker through the onboard sound which most computers with onboard 
audio do or to put an external speaker jack for the internal speaker.
On 
Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 09:42:11AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> That's a good point couldn't you make sound come out the pc speaker?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lorenzo Prince" <lorenzo at prince.homelinux.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 9:10 AM
> Subject: Re: Talking bios
> 
> 
> > I guess the issue some people have is that perfect accessibility can only
> be achieved by making the bios talk for itself
> > instead of having to connect a very expensive device to it that can cost
> as much as the computer just to get it to talk.
> > I generally share that opinion, but I will also add that anything at all
> is better than nothing.
> >
> > PRINCE
> >
> > The famous speaker who no one had heard of said:
> > > How so?  She can connect a device to her computer, and just like that
> the
> > > BIOS is accessible.  How is that the oposit of accessible?  That is the
> > > picture of accessible, as far as I can tell.
> > >
> > >  On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Allan
> > > Shaw wrote:
> >
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