Re: heretical thoughts was Re: Speakup dropped from Ubuntu

[Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>]

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No, speakup won't work through a converter, but just about anything
else, especially user space programs will work through a converter
just fine.

Greg


On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:57:07AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> The big problem here presently is Speakup is locked to the hardware
> based addresses for a standard internal serial port.  It has been my
> understanding that these USB to serial port converters won't work with
> Speakup in its present form.  Until that gets corrected, the software
> speech argument stands.
> 
> Also, I thought new computers so often come without serial ports that
> some day, you wouln't be able to even find one.
> 

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