On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Thomas Stivers wrote: > On 01/29/03 11:24 AM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > That's why Speakup is flawed by design. If only people could understand > > that... (sigh). > > If speakup is flawed what screen reader should be used for linux? Speakup, but made to run from user space. With initrd and the upcoming initial ramfs about to become mandatory in Linux 2.6 or 3.0 there is absolutely no reason for such support to live in the kernel. This, plus the current trand about all speech synthesis made into software through a sound card is yet more reason for a user space solution. Unfortunately, the speakup developers just don't seem to "see the light". Nicolas