From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from adelie.ubuntu.com ([82.211.81.139]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ho2CS-0003ko-00 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 14:56:44 -0400 Received: from hutte.ubuntu.com ([82.211.81.181]) by adelie.ubuntu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ho2By-0005zl-Cr for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 19:56:14 +0100 Received: from cf5a6bf51.dhcp.bluecom.no ([81.191.166.245] helo=[192.168.0.101]) by hutte.ubuntu.com with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ho2By-00076B-7W for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 15 May 2007 19:56:14 +0100 Message-ID: <464A02B5.3070100@ubuntu.com> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 20:57:57 +0200 From: Henrik Nilsen Omma User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070403) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: heretical thoughts was Re: Speakup dropped from Ubuntu References: <87sl9yndw2.fsf@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <87sl9yndw2.fsf@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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, 15 May 2007 18:56:45 -0000 I'm not qualified to comment on the technical merits of a kernel vs. a user-space solution, but I know that from a maintenance point of view we would prefer it. More importantly, this is the kind of forward thinking I would like to see more of in the access community. Over the next couple of years we will increasingly move over to ultra-mobile technologies. These will require lean kernels but there is scope for many options in user-space. Ubuntu is working actively with Intel on these new platform to make sure accessibility is a consideration from the very start. Hopefully we can avoid the long accessibility gap we had with mobile phones. Henrik C.M. Brannon wrote: > Hi folks, > I had a couple of observations that may not sit well with most of you ... > > Hardware synthesis is becoming obsolete. Why? More and more systems, > especially laptops, are being manufactured without RS232 ports. When > I buy my next laptop, I won't let the presence of RS232 be a > determining factor. The vendors of USB synths won't release their > product information, so these are unsupported. Thus, I'm not buying > one. Who wants to do business with people like that anyhow? So it > looks like software speech is the way of the future, at least for me. > Next, software speech is more convenient, especially when using a > laptop. You have to carry one less peripheral with you. > > The question to ask is this. Given the decline of hardware synthesis, > is it really necessary to have speech support within the kernel > itself? Software synthesizers run in user mode, so the benefits of a > speech-enabled kernel -- notably a talking boot process -- are lost. > > Comments are welcome. > > PS. I'm not a GUI user, so I'm arguing from a console / command-line > perspective. > > -- Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >