From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fed1rmmtao106.cox.net ([68.230.241.40]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ho3HJ-0004Zz-00 for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 16:05:49 -0400 Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmmtao106.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20070515200513.PUBA6556.fed1rmmtao106.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Tue, 15 May 2007 16:05:13 -0400 Received: from hedge ([72.198.87.190]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id zY4w1W00846QN3s0000000; Tue, 15 May 2007 16:05:13 -0400 From: cmbrannon@cox.net (C.M. Brannon) To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: heretical thoughts was Re: Speakup dropped from Ubuntu References: <87sl9yndw2.fsf@cox.net> <20070515190630.GB13719@localhost.localdomain> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 15:01:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070515190630.GB13719@localhost.localdomain> (Gregory Nowak's message of "Tue, 15 May 2007 12:06:30 -0700") Message-ID: <87odklonyr.fsf@cox.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 20:05:49 -0000 Gregory Nowak writes: > I'm in full agreement with you there. I will personally not buy a usb > synth, until I know that the manufacturer has released the specs for > it without requiring an NDA to be signed. This isn't going to happen. IIRC, the Tripple Talk USB came out 5 or 6 years ago. > Yes, gentoo, fedora, can be > installed over ssh. Grml, ubuntu can be installed with software > speech. However, what if someone wants to install and use a distro > like debian or slackware, that support neither option as far as I > know? If you have a laptop made in the last couple of years, you won't be able to do a talking install of Slackware, Debian, etc. This trend will become more pronounced; it's only a matter of time before hardware speech is nonviable. So we need to start thinking about long-term solutions. -- Chris