General questions from someone who's never used Speakup...

[Scott Berry]

Hi James,

First of all Speakup is a console application so you won't get a windows 
interface but there are at least two programs that work in Gnome.  One is 
called Orca not sure of the spelling and the other being Gnopernicus. 
Gnopernicus is a little behind times last time I used it but I am  getting 
back in to Linux myself and will be able to give you info as I go.  But 
Speakup is great I love it.  Gnopernicus the keyboard commands are very 
weird.  Orca I am not sure how that is set up.

Scott
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Homuth" <james at the-jdh.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 5:52 PM
Subject: General questions from someone who's never used Speakup...


>I do have linux experience, though not running it off my own machine,
> since until recently I'd been unaware of anything remotely decent so
> far as text-to-speech capabilities for it. What I'd like to know,
> however, is what kind of feedback/configurability is offered with the
> current version of Speakup? I should probably point out that, coming
> from Windows, I'm probably going to end up comparing this with
> whatever expectations I have after using JAWS and/or Window Eyes.
> I've been tossing around the idea of finding a spare machine just to
> fiddle around with linux and check out Speakup, at the very least,
> but I like to know what I'm getting into before I go and jump in with
> both feet. If anyone knows where I can get my hands on something like
> a demo of the program in action, or can maybe tell me what their
> experience with Speakup has been like, that'd be awesome. Email me on
> or off list, whichever.
>
> James
>
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