From: "Albert E. Sten-Clanton" <albert.e.sten_clanton@verizon.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: heretical thoughts was Re: Speakup dropped from Ubuntu
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 16:35:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000b01c79730$a27799c0$6405a8c0@ALBERTLC7SN0ZA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87odklonyr.fsf@cox.net>
If you're right about the trend, then once again we will have second-rate access, as we do with Windblows. I'll keep hardware speech around as long as I can.
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: "C.M. Brannon" <cmbrannon@cox.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: heretical thoughts was Re: Speakup dropped from Ubuntu
> Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org> writes:
>
> > I'm in full agreement with you there. I will personally not buy a usb
> > synth, until I know that the manufacturer has released the specs for
> > it without requiring an NDA to be signed.
>
> This isn't going to happen. IIRC, the Tripple Talk USB came out 5 or
> 6 years ago.
>
> > Yes, gentoo, fedora, can be
> > installed over ssh. Grml, ubuntu can be installed with software
> > speech. However, what if someone wants to install and use a distro
> > like debian or slackware, that support neither option as far as I
> > know?
>
> If you have a laptop made in the last couple of years, you won't be
> able to do a talking install of Slackware, Debian, etc.
> This trend will become more pronounced; it's only a matter of time
> before hardware speech is nonviable.
> So we need to start thinking about long-term solutions.
> -- Chris
>
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
C.M. Brannon
` Henrik Nilsen Omma
` Gene Collins
` Henrik Nilsen Omma
` Albert E. Sten-Clanton
` Gregory Nowak
` C.M. Brannon
` Albert E. Sten-Clanton [this message]
` Brent Harding
` Christopher Moore
` Henrik Nilsen Omma
` Gregory Nowak
` Alex Snow
` Anthony Creapeau
` Steve Holmes
` Gregory Nowak
` Adam Myrow
` Samuel Thibault
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