speakup is nice

[James Homuth]

My only knock against Speakup is it's strictly command line based. If I'm
sitting in front of a linux desktop, I want to be able to use a lot of the
actual desktop applications. Certain IM clients, for example. Plus, my
limited money for hardware means I can't wander out and get my hands on a
speech synth. Otherwise, when I install linux on my laptop in the next month
or so I'd go with Speakup over Orca.

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Trevor Astrope
Sent: January 13, 2009 12:07 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: speakup is nice

Yep. I've tried orca and even bought a mac. The only time I use them is for
online banking and sites where links doesn't work. Otherwise, speakup is my
goto screen reader.

I agree that we don't say enough just how great and liberating it is!

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, John G. Heim wrote:

> I think it's not said often enough. Speakup is really, really nice. 
> Lets face it, when the chips are down, you always fall back on speakup 
> don't you? I know I do. The accessible debian install,er, talking grml 
> CD, plus several a talking Windows installer I built myself. They all 
> depend on speakup. Speakup is like that old PC you have that always 
> works even when that new flashiy one is on the fritz again.You know 
> what I mean? You've got your flashy new laptop or whatever but in an
emergency, don't you want your old one running speakup?
> Say your network is down and you need to make a serial port 
> connection. What do you want? I want speakup. When a machine won't 
> boot, you put in your grml CD with speakup don't you? If I'm in a 
> panic, I always just want something with speakup.
>
> --
> John G. Heim
> jheim at math.wisc.edu 3-4189
> http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/
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