From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 18596 invoked from network); 7 Dec 1996 03:29:31 -0000 Received: from netcom19.netcom.com (jrebman@192.100.81.132) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Dec 1996 03:29:30 -0000 Received: (from jrebman@localhost) by netcom19.netcom.com (8.6.13/Netcom) id TAA21324; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 19:28:43 -0800 From: jrebman@netcom.com (Jim Rebman) Message-Id: <199612070328.TAA21324@netcom19.netcom.com> Subject: Re: another idea for speech To: blinux-list@redhat.com Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 19:28:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: from "Craig Martin" at Dec 6, 96 05:14:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: 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