Speakup on Other Unix Operating Systems

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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Hello Beth,
Speakup runs at the kernel level not at the user level. This means that
it is only going to be available under Linux. If you need access under
Free BSD, you may try one of the other solutions like yasr or
emacsspeak.

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Joseph C. Lininger
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And so it came to pass that on Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Beth Hatch said

>
> Hello all,
>
> I have a job possibility where I may need to have speech access to BSD
unix?
> Is it possible to use Speak up with this operating system, or is there
some
> other screen reader that will work?  I have access to a Dectalk USB
and a SB
> live sound card if software speech is support.   If you prefer, please
feel
> free to write to me off list at bhatch200 at comcast.net if this is off
topic
> for this list.  If Speakup would work with it, that would much
> easier.<smile>  I suppose I could also use ssh to get into the UNIX
box from
> another computer.  Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Beth
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

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