From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oflmta01bw.bigpond.com ([139.134.6.21]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16PKqz-00076R-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 04:53:33 -0500 Received: from data.home ([144.135.24.84]) by oflmta01bw.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GPTL4O00.GG8 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:00:24 +1000 Received: from CPE-144-136-137-64.qld.bigpond.net.au ([144.136.137.64]) by bwmam06.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0h 47/4936432); 12 Jan 2002 19:53:21 Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16PKqi-0000ga-00; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 19:53:16 +1000 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 19:53:16 +1000 From: Geoff Shang To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: suggestions for Speakup 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: On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Adam Myrow wrote: > With the high demand for software synthesis, I am greatly > concerned that we will lose this feature when Speakup has to wait for > sound card initialization before it can talk. It is true that speakup will have to wait for soundcard initialisation before it can use software speech, but this will not affect the current situation. You will still be able to compile hardware synth drivers into the kernel and get speech from kernel load. Geoff.