serial conversion with speakup

[Zachary]

Great.  I look forward to it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <jbahm at pcdesk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: serial conversion with speakup


> 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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