From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 19759 invoked from network); 29 Dec 1996 04:32:57 -0000 Received: from prn-ts1-36.jvnc.net (HELO kjahds.com) (kjahds@204.143.69.36) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Dec 1996 04:32:56 -0000 Received: from localhost (kjahds@localhost) by kjahds.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA00464; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 23:23:36 -0500 Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 23:23:36 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Albanowski To: Steve Holmes cc: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: another idea for speech In-Reply-To: <32c5461d.180075072@mailhost.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Steve Holmes wrote: > Well, since most of the other solutions are *FREE* for access to > linux, I really doubt a company like Synthavoice would willingly > develope a product for Linux. Most access vendors sell their > DOS/Windows stuff for well over $500 so they would mostlikely charge a > similar price for their Linux product. Since I'm just playing around > with Linux here at home, I would not personally be willing to pay such > a price. Are there any solutions, are they free, and are they usable? More to the point, do you _need_ the functions that Synthavoice could provide, and would Linux be a good platform to work under? If so, $500 doesn't seem impossible. I don't see how any encouragement of development for blind access software can be a bad thing, commercial or not. And the mere existance of commercial software need not stop the amateurs. -- Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)