Talking bios

[Alex Snow]

you have a compaq right?
bc on those the pc speaker is usually put through the onboard sound.
On 
Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 06:54:52PM -0500, Garrett Klein wrote:
> Or, as in my case, some comps don't have a PC speaker at all.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> To: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon at usgs.gov>; "Speakup is a screen review system
> for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 11:53 AM
> Subject: Re: Talking bios
> 
> 
> > 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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