From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cantata.rednote.net ([66.92.170.86]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AlEPz-0003Iu-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:37:15 -0500 Received: from cantata.rednote.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by cantata.rednote.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id i0QLbC01002612 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:37:13 -0500 Received: (from janina@localhost) by cantata.rednote.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) id i0QLbBDI002608 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:37:11 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:37:10 -0500 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20040126213709.GA1992@rednote.net> References: <017801c3e44d$23261960$bc00a8c0@NOTEBOOK> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <017801c3e44d$23261960$bc00a8c0@NOTEBOOK> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Subject: Re: I'm new... X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 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: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:37:16 -0000 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" > > 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