From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.203]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FTi9C-0006Yr-00 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:24:50 -0400 Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s7so1173132wxc for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:24:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.75.13 with SMTP id x13mr1783421wxa; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:24:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?149.149.100.252? ( [149.149.10.250]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id i14sm35642wxd.2006.04.12.09.24.48; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:24:49 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v749.3) In-Reply-To: References: <5909251D-39AB-426C-86FA-942FA7B06103@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <08E139C0-BF91-4E9D-8D82-C5866DABA0C9@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Jane Jordan (gmail)" Subject: Re: running Speakup on the Mac Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:24:48 -0500 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749.3) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:24:50 -0000 I have plenty of time, so go ahead. I understand about Finals. Mine start on may 1. Jane On Apr 12, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote: > Hi > Speakup is a Linux screen reader which operates at the kernel level. > Thus, it requires Linux and is not capable of running on OS X (or any > other OS for that matter), it would have to be completely rewritten > to allow this. However, I'd be willing to bet that YASR, another UNIX > screen reader, could be made to work though you'd need a hardware > synthesizer to use it unless support for Apple voices could be worked > in, which is probably possible though using those at the same time as > VO would probably cause the same conflict as most other speaking apps > attempting to do this. YASR isn't as robust as speakup but it can do > most things, and it already compiles on FreeBSD. I'll work on this, > if someone doesn't do it first, when I get the time which should be > in a few weeks once finals are over. It shouldn't be too much work, > as it operates at the shell level itself, it doesn't need anything > from the OS other than to open a PTY to read the output. Would be > nice to have terminal reading automatically. > > > On Apr 12, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote: > >> Has anyone tried running Speakup on the Mac? Will it work? I want >> to try using it with the terminal we have, but not sure if it can be >> done. Anyone tried it? Will it work with Mac voices, or will I have >> to get a differnt synthesizer or what? :) >> >> Jane >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup