What are the advantages of Speakup over Orca?

[Cody Hurst]

Speakup is strictly for command line, a virtual console. Orca on the  
other hand is intended to be a screen reader for the GUI desktop  
environment, gnome. If you are good with bash and want to work in the  
command line without the hastle of a desktop, then using speakup would  
be the best choice. However I'm sure you know already you will need an  
external synthisizer such as a double talk lt or a bns. Orca is  
maintained by sun, speakup is not.

HTH,
Cody
On Aug 16, 2008, at 2:57 AM, Tony Baechler wrote:

> Charlie Dorff wrote:
>> Hi...
>> I am currently using Orca as my screen reader and I was wondering  
>> how much difference there is between Orca and Speekup. Could  
>> someone explain what the advantages are of Speakup over Orca? Will  
>> Speakup do things that Orca can't? I am thinking about trying to  
>> install Speakup on my computer and would like a better idea of what  
>> Speakup is like before I get started. Thanks
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