basic accessibility question

basic accessibility question

[Keith Barrett]

Sorry if this is basic but have been reading and not found the 
answer.

I would like to know what sort of tasks are possible with linux and 
speech?

Can I use it for webb browsing and sound editing and for keeping 
customer records e.t.c.  What about ocr?

Is it the case that somethings work better under windows?

Many thanks


Keith

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Keith Barrett
email <keith@barrettpianos.co.uk>
Website www.barrettpianos.co.uk
Amateur radio callsign gw4nby
Corntown, South Wales

Re: basic accessibility question

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
You can do most things under Linux.
As for browsing the Internet, web 
browsers that can be used with speakup has poor or no javascript support.
Apart from that, Internet access through Linux works very well.

As for OCR, the engines exist although the good ones are commercial.
There is one engine for which you can get a license to use for free.  The 
quality is OK.

I do not know about a user friendly front-end for these engines which is 
working and speakup-friendly.
There are tools for sound editing, but most people would not term the 
accessible ones as user-friendly.
An accessible user-friendly front-end for ecasound can be developed.  IMHO 
Ecasound is very good.

There are lots of graphical front-ends for sound applications, but 
accessibility of the graphical mode is not quite there yet.

Lastly it should be pointed out that you can have both Windows and Linux 
on the same machine.
You can then use Windows for the things you feel is too difficult under 
Linux.

HTH
Willem


On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Keith Barrett wrote:

> Sorry if this is basic but have been reading and not found the
> answer.
>
> I would like to know what sort of tasks are possible with linux and
> speech?
>
> Can I use it for webb browsing and sound editing and for keeping
> customer records e.t.c.  What about ocr?
>
> Is it the case that somethings work better under windows?
>
> Many thanks
>
>
> Keith
>
> - - - -
>
> Keith Barrett
> email <keith@barrettpianos.co.uk>
> Website www.barrettpianos.co.uk
> Amateur radio callsign gw4nby
> Corntown, South Wales
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

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Re: basic accessibility question

[Janina Sajka]

Well, I have no way to know what you can do, or might learn to do. I can
tell you that I do all these things.

I would also not expect that these things are accomplished the same way.
In fact, you'll probably find that you'll be doing things very
differently. Some things you used to do won't work so well, but others
will be far easier than they ever were on Windows.

It's just different, and I say Hurrah for the difference.

To my mind, it's not an issue of comparison. I'm quite happy with the
notion that if I can't do it in Linux, I can probably get along without
it.

Keith Barrett writes:
> Sorry if this is basic but have been reading and not found the 
> answer.
> 
> I would like to know what sort of tasks are possible with linux and 
> speech?
> 
> Can I use it for webb browsing and sound editing and for keeping 
> customer records e.t.c.  What about ocr?
> 
> Is it the case that somethings work better under windows?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> 
> Keith
> 
> - - - -
> 
> Keith Barrett
> email <keith@barrettpianos.co.uk>
> Website www.barrettpianos.co.uk
> Amateur radio callsign gw4nby
> Corntown, South Wales
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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