RE: speakup is nice

["James Homuth" <james@the-jdh.com>]

I do understand. See my previous post on the matter. Also, there is the
additional headache of requiring, at least for the install process, a
hardware synth. Which I've never been a particular fan of. Plus, if I decide
to put it on a laptop, I want to be able to take *just* the laptop. Again,
not saying you're wrong or anything, but I kind of have my restrictions. And
at the moment, speakup sort of falls outside of them based on the
information I currently have on it. Some of it may be incorrect. At which
point I'll definitely reinvestigate.

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
Sent: January 19, 2009 11:02 AM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: speakup is nice

You don't understand. You get to have both Speakup and Orca and go back and
forth between them all day long. It's not an either or situation.
It's a both and situation.

Janina

James Homuth writes:
> My only knock against Speakup is it's strictly command line based. If 
> I'm sitting in front of a linux desktop, I want to be able to use a 
> lot of the actual desktop applications. Certain IM clients, for 
> example. Plus, my limited money for hardware means I can't wander out 
> and get my hands on a speech synth. Otherwise, when I install linux on 
> my laptop in the next month or so I'd go with Speakup over Orca.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Trevor Astrope
> Sent: January 13, 2009 12:07 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: speakup is nice
> 
> Yep. I've tried orca and even bought a mac. The only time I use them 
> is for online banking and sites where links doesn't work. Otherwise, 
> speakup is my goto screen reader.
> 
> I agree that we don't say enough just how great and liberating it is!
> 
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, John G. Heim wrote:
> 
> > I think it's not said often enough. Speakup is really, really nice. 
> > Lets face it, when the chips are down, you always fall back on 
> > speakup don't you? I know I do. The accessible debian install,er, 
> > talking grml CD, plus several a talking Windows installer I built 
> > myself. They all depend on speakup. Speakup is like that old PC you 
> > have that always works even when that new flashiy one is on the 
> > fritz again.You know what I mean? You've got your flashy new laptop 
> > or whatever but in an
> emergency, don't you want your old one running speakup?
> > Say your network is down and you need to make a serial port 
> > connection. What do you want? I want speakup. When a machine won't 
> > boot, you put in your grml CD with speakup don't you? If I'm in a 
> > panic, I always just want something with speakup.
> >
> > --
> > John G. Heim
> > jheim@math.wisc.edu 3-4189
> > http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/
> >
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