From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 536 invoked from network); 8 Dec 1996 00:36:19 -0000 Received: from mhub2.tc.umn.edu (0@128.101.131.52) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Dec 1996 00:36:19 -0000 Return-Path: Received: from gold.tc.umn.edu by mhub2.tc.umn.edu; Sat, 7 Dec 96 18:35:26 -0600 Received: from pub-1-a-17.dialup.umn.edu by gold.tc.umn.edu; Sat, 7 Dec 96 18:35:24 -0600 Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19961207190521.1fb73ae6@gold.tc.umn.edu> X-Sender: malv0002@gold.tc.umn.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: blinux-list@redhat.com From: michael malver Subject: Re: another idea for speech Date: Sat, 7 Dec 96 18:35:26 -0600 List-Id: I am glad they are working on a x screen reader, but I'd also like to see something that would work under linux, without x. I want to be able to run bash, or tcsh without running a whole nother termina. I like nn, elm, and would probably switch to unix if those programs would talk on my machine. For now, I must use a local provider. At 07:28 PM 12/6/96 -0800, you wrote: >Craig writes: >> >> I have suggested to the folks at Synthavoice that they might try their >> hand at a product for Linux and x free 86. what do you all think of the >> idea? > >I would rather see Synthavoice put their efforts into a top-quality NT >screen reader. There is a group of us who is working on one for X, and >when it is done (please don't ask when), it will be freely available. > >I would hate to see a commercial company devote any resources to a screen >reader for X, when instead they could be concentrating on NT -- the end >result is that there will be two top-quality screen readers, one for each >environment, and that will allow the maximum number of blind people to be >employed in the shortest amount of time, and that is really what should >be driving any development efforts. > >-- Jim Rebman > >--- >Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@redhat.com >Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux >Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux >To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@redhat.com >with subject line: unsubscribe > >