From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from apollo.csir.co.za (mx-4.csir.co.za [146.64.10.99]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B45C1A48F for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 10:13:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([146.64.19.125]) by apollo.csir.co.za (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o53EH6QJ016640 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:17:06 +0200 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o53ECbiP011387 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:12:37 +0200 Received: from localhost (wvdwalt@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id o53ECb6T011374 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:12:37 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: wvdwalt owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:12:37 +0200 (SAST) From: Willem van der Walt X-X-Sender: wvdwalt@localhost.localdomain To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Listen-up Project/DAISY Playing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.5 (apollo.csir.co.za [146.64.10.99]); Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:17:06 +0200 (SAST) X-CSIR-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-CSIR-MailScanner-ID: o53EH6QJ016640 X-CSIR-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CSIR-MailScanner-SpamScore: s X-CSIR-MailScanner-From: wvdwalt@csir.co.za X-CSIR-MailScanner-Watermark: 1276179426.84232@65gnFZM8MfQGArv7qkYLVw X-Spam-Status: No X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 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: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:13:52 -0000 No, I do not think that listenup should be declared dead forever. Personally, I did not particularly like its interface, but it worked quite well on the old DAISY standard. I cannot work on it, but I think that if the parsing part gets updated to handle the newer standards, and the audio output could be modernized, Listenup still has a long life ahead. Regards, Willem On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Excellent review Willem. Thank you very much. > > So listen-up should stay dead and buried then? Or are there people willing to > state they will work on it? > > Kirk > -- > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.