speakup is nice

[Michael Whapples]

On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 11:02 -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 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.
> 
Further more, unlike the commercial products (normally found on windows)
you have no problem in getting both orca and speakup, you really are
free to choose the best tool for the job.

Michael Whapples

> 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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