As far as I know, StarOffice for Windows is speech-hostile. People who have tried it have then deleted it. At 07:10 PM 12/19/01 -0600, you wrote: >Is there star office for windows, my old ms office install is corrupt, and >want to use something else, speech friendly? >At 03:04 PM 12/19/01 +0500, you wrote: >>Hi, >>Staroffice runs under X windows, so in its standard form, I would say that >>it is not accessable to blind people. If your only need is to read >>ms-word documents, there are two viewers that works ok. >>The one is called wv and is on the redhat cd set. The other one is catdoc >>and can be found on the net. I have it here and can send it to you. >>Catdoc is like the linux cat command but for ms-word documents. >>I ended up using it more to listen to the ms documents that is sent to me. >>Staroffice does read ms documents. It can also save documents in the >>ms-word >>format sothat ms-word users can read/edit what you have written. >>The interaction between staroffice and ms is reported to be better in >>version 6.0 beta than in Staroffice 5.2, but the beta seem to have some >>other >>bugs which might be sorted out in the full release. >>My wife exclusivly use Staroffice. >>regards, Willem Braille is the solution to the digital divide. Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Staff Engineer National Library Service f/t Blind and Physically Handicapped Library of Congress (202) 707-0535 <lras@loc.gov> <http://www.loc.gov/nls> HOME: <lras@sprynet.com> <http://lras.home.sprynet.com>