heretical thoughts was Re: Speakup dropped from Ubuntu

[Albert E. Sten-Clanton]

If you're right about the trend, then once again we will have second-rate access, as we do with Windblows.  I'll keep hardware speech around as long as I can.

Al
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C.M. Brannon" <cmbrannon at cox.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: heretical thoughts was Re: Speakup dropped from Ubuntu


> Gregory Nowak <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> writes:
> 
> > I'm in full agreement with you there. I will personally not buy a usb
> > synth, until I know that the manufacturer has released the specs for
> > it without requiring an NDA to be signed.
> 
> This isn't going to happen.  IIRC, the Tripple Talk USB came out 5 or
> 6 years ago.
> 
> > Yes, gentoo, fedora, can be
> > installed over ssh. Grml, ubuntu can be installed with software
> > speech. However, what if someone wants to install and use a distro
> > like debian or slackware, that support neither option as far as I
> > know?
> 
> If you have a laptop made in the last couple of years, you won't be
> able to do a talking install of Slackware, Debian, etc.
> This trend will become more pronounced; it's only a matter of time
> before hardware speech is nonviable.
> So we need to start thinking about long-term solutions.
> -- Chris
> 
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