From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 15116 invoked from network); 7 Dec 1996 22:45:22 -0000 Received: from europe.std.com (199.172.62.20) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Dec 1996 22:45:21 -0000 Received: from world.std.com by europe.std.com (8.7.5/BZS-8-1.0) id RAA07280; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 17:44:29 -0500 (EST) Received: by world.std.com (5.65c/Spike-2.0) id AA07248; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 17:44:29 -0500 Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 17:44:29 -0500 From: lark@world.std.com (Lar Kaufman) Message-Id: <199612072244.AA07248@world.std.com> To: blinux-list@redhat.com, blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: another idea for speech List-Id: I can't agree with the idea that Synthavoice should be working on an NT screen reader. IBM has already shown in OS/2 Warp 4 that it is quite feasible and apropos for voice support to be an OS-supplied interface, and I'd rather see pressure for Microsoft to adopt IBM's solution to have standard hooks. An X solution is also laudable, because it cannot be justifiable to lock a segment of users into a proprietary solution because of a disability. (Let Microsoft support X? Why not?) -lar Lar Kaufman lark@world.std.com lark@conserve.org lark@walden.com + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + _Running Linux_ 2nd. Ed. Aug. 1996, Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman, Authors O'Reilly & Associates, Publishers