From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from server1.sidns.com ([69.93.35.66]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DDrsn-00026p-00 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:29:53 -0500 Received: from dsl-202-173-132-131.nsw.westnet.com.au ([202.173.132.131] helo=luke-laptop.yelavich.home) by server1.sidns.com with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DDrsp-0007it-Iz for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:29:56 +0000 Received: (nullmailer pid 23673 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:29:22 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:29:05 +1100 From: Luke Yelavich To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Message-ID: <20050322222905.GA21651@luke-laptop.yelavich.home> References: <000c01c52bce$28896f00$0100000a@server> <000501c52be6$088bcfa0$0100000a@server> <20050322221826.GC25370@prince.homelinux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050322221826.GC25370@prince.homelinux.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server1.sidns.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - braille.uwo.ca X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - themuso.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: windows versus lynix X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:29:53 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:18:26AM EST, Lorenzo Taylor wrote: > Kirk Reiser's comments on Re: windows versus lynix were as follows: > # There are currently no distributions with software speech. Maybe in > # the future their may be but the difficulty of determining the users > # sound card and loading the appropriate drivers has not been solved > # yet. > > For an idea on how to solve this problem, check out Oralux: > > http://www.oralux.org > > Works for me(TM) > > The sound driver just loads up without having to try to ask me first which card > I have. That is one possibility, but the sound and speech come up very late in the boot process, which is not what is wanted. There is also no way of knowing whether a sound card is even detected, without not hearing anything. - -- Luke Get my public GPG key here: http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCQJwxjVefwtBjIM4RAguIAJ9phOr7+YeTIEx3+R71/YzIiWYbNgCg6tFw irXjE/zfJle7KkuJ7uOwXd4= =FGaO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----