From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 208-59-175-193.c3-0.slvr-ubr2.lnh-slvr.md.cable.rcn.com ([208.59.175.193] helo=localhost.localdomain) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16TgOW-00045H-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 04:42:08 -0500 Received: from localhost (ccrawford@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0O9f2h19340 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 04:41:03 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: ccrawford owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 04:41:02 -0500 (EST) From: charles crawford X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: Play Station 2 and Linux In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Dave, This idea of play station 2 being a Linux box is fascinating. Would anyone care to speculate on what it would take to make a software synthesizer for speech like Microsoft SAPI? It seems to me that if we could get speakup for example into the system at the get go, then we would get over one big barrier to accceptance within the blind user community. -- Charlie Crawford.