speakup is nice

Wed Jan 28 10:08:32 EST 2009

By the sound of it, you are under the impression that speakup cannot work 
with software speech.
It can work with software speech.
I hav used orca with espeak to install speakup with software speech on a 
machine of mine.
Using speech-dispatcher, one can jump between orca and speakup without 
problems.
HTH, Willem

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, James Homuth wrote:

> I do understand. See my previous post on the matter. Also, there is the
> additional headache of requiring, at least for the install process, a
> hardware synth. Which I've never been a particular fan of. Plus, if I decide
> to put it on a laptop, I want to be able to take *just* the laptop. Again,
> not saying you're wrong or anything, but I kind of have my restrictions. And
> at the moment, speakup sort of falls outside of them based on the
> information I currently have on it. Some of it may be incorrect. At which
> point I'll definitely reinvestigate.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> Sent: January 19, 2009 11:02 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: speakup is nice
> 
> 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/
> > >
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