speakup is nice

[Janina Sajka]

You don't understand. You get to have both Speakup and Orca and go back
and forth between them all day long. It's not an either or situation.
It's a both and situation.

Janina

James Homuth writes:
> 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/
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
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