serial conversion with speakup

[Janina Sajka]

Great. I'd like to be on your list. Also, it sounds like something I
might want to add to our installation HOWTO.

Joseph C. Lininger writes:
> 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
> Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7
> ----- 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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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040