From: "Brent Harding" <bharding@doorpi.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 15:39:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <006d01c79731$203d52f0$224a5c46@brent827e59cc1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sl9yndw2.fsf@cox.net>
Well, what about that gear that is probably in service all around that uses
serial ports for administration? I was thinking of going back to school for
a networking-related career, and from what I gather, RS232 could be the most
important thing I could theoretically want on a laptop.
----- Original Message -----
From: "C.M. Brannon" <cmbrannon@cox.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:24 PM
Subject: heretical thoughts was Re: Speakup dropped from Ubuntu
> Hi folks,
> I had a couple of observations that may not sit well with most of you ...
>
> Hardware synthesis is becoming obsolete. Why? More and more systems,
> especially laptops, are being manufactured without RS232 ports. When
> I buy my next laptop, I won't let the presence of RS232 be a
> determining factor. The vendors of USB synths won't release their
> product information, so these are unsupported. Thus, I'm not buying
> one. Who wants to do business with people like that anyhow? So it
> looks like software speech is the way of the future, at least for me.
> Next, software speech is more convenient, especially when using a
> laptop. You have to carry one less peripheral with you.
>
> The question to ask is this. Given the decline of hardware synthesis,
> is it really necessary to have speech support within the kernel
> itself? Software synthesizers run in user mode, so the benefits of a
> speech-enabled kernel -- notably a talking boot process -- are lost.
>
> Comments are welcome.
>
> PS. I'm not a GUI user, so I'm arguing from a console / command-line
> perspective.
>
> -- Chris
>
>
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C.M. Brannon
` Henrik Nilsen Omma
` Gene Collins
` Henrik Nilsen Omma
` Albert E. Sten-Clanton
` Gregory Nowak
` C.M. Brannon
` Albert E. Sten-Clanton
` Brent Harding [this message]
` Christopher Moore
` Henrik Nilsen Omma
` Gregory Nowak
` Alex Snow
` Anthony Creapeau
` Steve Holmes
` Gregory Nowak
` Adam Myrow
` Samuel Thibault
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