From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 321891EF7BC; Wed, 8 Oct 2014 16:22:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from server1.shellworld.net (shellworld.net [69.60.117.94]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0F721EF7AF for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2014 16:22:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: by server1.shellworld.net (Postfix, from userid 1028) id A678322949; Wed, 8 Oct 2014 16:22:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server1.shellworld.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4697228B7 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 2014 13:22:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 13:22:18 -0700 From: Hart Larry To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: the push to get rid of CONFIG_VT in the kernel and the future of Speakup In-Reply-To: <86fvey1i06.fsf@vibrator.pk5001z> Message-ID: References: <87zjd64c16.fsf@mushroom.PK5001Z> <86fvey1i06.fsf@vibrator.pk5001z> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 20:22:26 -0000 Well Deedra-and-All, while I know next2nothing about kernels, as a user of practicly an only Linux screen-reader which I can use with my Dec-Talk U S B, on 1 large hand, durring the last 11years, I am greatful that Speakup was created, but on another hand, I really miss much of the customination which I had with Vocal-Eyes in DOS, where I could completely configure 3 different dictionaries, so I had complete controll of how characters, keystrokes, and words were read-and-pronounced. I think its been several years since YASR was updated-and-Mike was unable to get it running in my DecTalk unit. I suppose in a certain way, Emacspeak is an only other example of a non-commercial solution in Linux, as where NVDA on the windows side has received seemingly great exceptance, but in general when you have a commercial product, there are more features, more development, and certainly more interaction among users-and-staff. Quite some months ago Kirk took an informal servey of improvements which we were interested in-and-there was going to be some sort of live chatt. Thanks for listening Hart