I rarely use speech myself but I woudln't mind a hardware synth because software speech in Linux is not at a useable state yet and I would like to have speech for things like IRC where you've got to be albee to read and tyupe aTt the same time but other than that speech is much less useful than braille is. So probably just for one application or two it doesn't really justify getting a brand new synth but since I can't find a used one that may be what I might have to do. I have two serial ports but no ISA slots or anything like that so the only kind of hardware synth that I coudl use would be something like the doubletalk lt. At 12:12 AM 9/7/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Hi John and all. >I really honestly use the speech in brltty very little. I think the main >difference would be that you mostly get speech in brltty when you ask for it, >i.e.: specifically request a line or part of the screen to be read. when >speakup >is on, unless you turn it off or press a key to continue typing, you hear >everything. this is an advantage if you are reading a long file, but actually >can slow you down in the regular course of things, as the operation is >long done >by the time the speech stops. but of course you can stop the speech or use the >control key to catch up the speech to the command. Usually if i want >speech and >braille, I run both brltty and speakup or emacspeak, since I do have two >serial >ports and a doubletalk lt as well as the braillelite. >In all fairness, I have to say that i'm not a good person to ask about the >speech functioning of brltty, since i just don't use it. In fact, I really use >braille rather than speech 99.9 percent of the time. as far as linux is >concerned, if you took away my doubletalk and speakup/emacspeak/yasr (all >speech >programs), my linux life would go on pretty much as usual. If you took away my >braille capability, I would be much more frustrated. However, I realize that >this is only how things are for me; braille is more expensive for one >thing, and >some people love speech as much as I do braille. It's a very individual thing, >and i'm not saying that braille is better, just that having used both I >personally thrive on braille use. This is why I would be a poor judge of the >speech capability unless i deliberately forced myself to use and test it. > >Cheryl > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list