serial conversion with speakup

[Joseph C. Lininger]

Hi,
I'm not trying to be mysterious or anything, but I am currently working on a 
fix for that particular problem. I should have a beta version available by 
the middle to end of the month. (November)
--
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Moore" <tom at tomstroubleshooting.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: serial conversion with speakup


> Hi.
> There is a lot to be said for using software speech on laptops.
> I do it myself, but your forgetting about the problem of not being able to 
> install the os on the laptop with out speech.
>
> Tom
>
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 09:38:32PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
>> Frankly, I would just go with software speech--especially if you have a
>> decent audio system on that laptop and are able to play other audio
>> while getting software speech.
>>
>> To my mind any kind of attachment on a laptop is a nuisance, whether its
>> a serial cable to an external synth, or a pcmcia card plus the cable and
>> the hw synth, or a usb cable and synth for that matter. I believe
>> laptops are more easily used without extra appendages hanging off every
>> port.
>>
>> Lorne Webber writes:
>> > while we're on the topic of conversion into serial, another option that 
>> > I'm
>> > thinking about is PCMCIA to serial.
>> > I too have a laptop that is sadly lacking a serial port, as well as 
>> > Zack, I
>> > know at least one other person right off who doesn't have a serial port 
>> > on
>> > their laptop. It looks like their going the way of 3 1/2 inch floppy 
>> > drives
>> > on laptops, obviously I prefer having a floppy drive, and of course a 
>> > serial
>> > port too.
>> > I'm afraid this is becoming a trend, and the community is going to have 
>> > to
>> > adapt to it.
>> > obviously USB to serial is probably not the answer, but I found a 
>> > company
>> > that manufactures PCMCIA to serial, and, I figure, Because they share
>> > electronic fundamentals with native bus architectures such as PCI and 
>> > ISA,
>> > they function exactly like standard COM ports and should be able to be
>> > addressed as such by most application software.
>> > (of course that's also what the manufactures say about USB to serial
>> > converters),
>> > the address for the particular product I'm interested in is:
>> > http://www.quatech.com/catalog/rs232_pcmcia.php
>> > I'm curious what you folks think about this possibility, its drawbacks 
>> > as
>> > well as its benefits. one benefit besides the obvious one if it 
>> > succeeds, is
>> > that the frequency of a laptop not having both a serial and PCMCIA port 
>> > is
>> > virtually unheard of, but again, I could be wrong, and If I am, please 
>> > tell
>> > me.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> > Lorne
>> >
>> >
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>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Janina Sajka, Chair
>> Accessibility Workgroup
>> Free Standards Group (FSG)
>>
>> janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
>>
>>
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