Hello...

[Cody Hurst]

Hello Mike,

  To get ou up to speed, there is a graphical desktop called Gnome, whihc 
supports a screen reader called Orca. If you download the live CD of Ubuntu 
7.04, you can use the screen reader right fromthe live CD. I wish I had time 
to explain it all, but visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca and read all about i 
there. I would say orca is comparable to jaws or window eyes the team who 
developes is in my opinion is the bes in the industry of open source 
sofware.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gaijin" <gaijin at clearwire.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:54 AM
Subject: Hello...


>     Hello all,
>
>     Just joined the list and thought I's say "hello" to everyone.
> Really nice to find a place like this.  I'm a rabid Linux fanatic who
> went blind from diabetic retinopathy in August of '02, and I've been
> pretty much offline ever since.  Finally broke down and upgraded my
> system to support WinXP and quickly heard about SpeakUp for Linux.  I'm
> in the process of looking for a supported speech synth for SpeakUp, so
> I'm still stuck in Windows on a 30 minute Win-Eyes time limit.  I hope
> to soon get Slackware up and running, and soon be able to contribute to
> the SpeakUp effort right along-side everyone.  I'm presently playing
> around with a copy of Oralux and learning the features.  Just need that
> speech synthesizer, and I should be off and running.  Thank you for all
> your efforts.  It is well appreciated.
>
>     Best regards,
>         Michael "Foreign White Devil" Ferranti
>
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