From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 15095 invoked from network); 9 Dec 1996 21:46:59 -0000 Received: from prn-ts1-36.jvnc.net (HELO kjahds.com) (root@204.143.69.36) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Dec 1996 21:46:58 -0000 Received: from localhost (kjahds@localhost) by kjahds.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA03190 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 16:27:10 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 16:27:09 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Albanowski To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: another idea for speech In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: On 7 Dec 1996, Sam Hartman wrote: > I understand some people's desire to have a console mode > screen reader and agree that this might have to be Linux dependent. > Either one of these goals would be reasonable, but not both in the > same product. Folks, please remember to distinguish between a screen reader and a voice synthesizer. From the name, I assume the company/product orginally mentioned (Synthavoice) involves primarily speech synthesis. Regardless of how screen reading is implemented under the console or X, and regardless of who does it, speech synthesis software would be useful for Linux. -- Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)