I'm new...

I'm new...

[Nick Van Vlaenderen]

Hi all,

I already sent a response on Scott's question, but in fact, I'm new on this list. I didn't have the time before to introduce myself -- so be it now.

My name's, as you've possibly noticed, Nick Van Vlaenderen. I'm a 16 years old Gentoo Linux and OpenBSD user from Belgium. I use Linux for 3 years now (using brltty), only on console. One of my friends discovered the Speakup project and I had a look at it. It seems to be really interesting. But can someone tell me what's it all about? I mean, I already tried Gnopernicus (without finishing it -- too many errors when compiling and I didn't have time to look at it). But anyway, I never used something like speakup or emacs-speak, etc. Can someone tell me more about it? What are the difficulties, and what can it offer for a blind user? I never used speech, so braille is enough for me anyway...

Cheers,

Nick

Re: I'm new...

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Nick:

Welcome to the Speakup list.

What is Speakup? It's a screen reader that supports speech synthesis as
the interface for the blind user. Mostly that means a hardware speech
synthesizer, though support for software speech is being developed.

Speakup is a screen reader for the console environment. This means that
it works in the same environment as brltty.

Of course, if you're satisfied with brltty, you may not need or want
Speakup.


Nick Van Vlaenderen writes:
> From: "Nick Van Vlaenderen" <nick.vanvlaenderen@pandora.be>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I already sent a response on Scott's question, but in fact, I'm new on this list. I didn't have the time before to introduce myself -- so be it now.
> 
> My name's, as you've possibly noticed, Nick Van Vlaenderen. I'm a 16 years old Gentoo Linux and OpenBSD user from Belgium. I use Linux for 3 years now (using brltty), only on console. One of my friends discovered the Speakup project and I had a look at it. It seems to be really interesting. But can someone tell me what's it all about? I mean, I already tried Gnopernicus (without finishing it -- too many errors when compiling and I didn't have time to look at it). But anyway, I never used something like speakup or emacs-speak, etc. Can someone tell me more about it? What are the difficulties, and what can it offer for a blind user? I never used speech, so braille is enough for me anyway...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nick
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

-- 
	
Janina Sajka
Email: janina@rednote.net		
Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175

Director, Technology Research and Development
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
http://www.afb.org

Chair, Accessibility Work Group
Free Standards Group
http://a11y.org

Re: BrailleTTY and PM portable display, was, I'm new...

[Darragh]

Hello jinina, I know you told me to have patients.  but, um any word on the
support of the pac mate portable displays?

Thanks

Darragh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: I'm new...


> Hi, Nick:
>
> Welcome to the Speakup list.
>
> What is Speakup? It's a screen reader that supports speech synthesis as
> the interface for the blind user. Mostly that means a hardware speech
> synthesizer, though support for software speech is being developed.
>
> Speakup is a screen reader for the console environment. This means that
> it works in the same environment as brltty.
>
> Of course, if you're satisfied with brltty, you may not need or want
> Speakup.
>
>
> Nick Van Vlaenderen writes:
> > From: "Nick Van Vlaenderen" <nick.vanvlaenderen@pandora.be>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I already sent a response on Scott's question, but in fact, I'm new on
this list. I didn't have the time before to introduce myself -- so be it
now.
> >
> > My name's, as you've possibly noticed, Nick Van Vlaenderen. I'm a 16
years old Gentoo Linux and OpenBSD user from Belgium. I use Linux for 3
years now (using brltty), only on console. One of my friends discovered the
Speakup project and I had a look at it. It seems to be really interesting.
But can someone tell me what's it all about? I mean, I already tried
Gnopernicus (without finishing it -- too many errors when compiling and I
didn't have time to look at it). But anyway, I never used something like
speakup or emacs-speak, etc. Can someone tell me more about it? What are the
difficulties, and what can it offer for a blind user? I never used speech,
so braille is enough for me anyway...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Nick
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
> --
>
> Janina Sajka
> Email: janina@rednote.net
> Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175
>
> Director, Technology Research and Development
> American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> http://www.afb.org
>
> Chair, Accessibility Work Group
> Free Standards Group
> http://a11y.org
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: BrailleTTY and PM portable display, was, I'm new...

[Cheryl Homiak]

You could write directly to Dave Mielke,
dave@mielke.cc
He is the maintainer of brltty.

-- 
Cheryl