Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes: > > > That's why Speakup is flawed by design. If only people could understand > > > that... (sigh). > 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". The speakup developer saw the light a long time ago and refuses to make second class citizens out of blinks. There is no reason in the world why a blind person shouldn't have speech from boot up if it's possible. That is not to say thaspeakup does not have flaws. I haven't seen developers crawling out of the wood work to help though. I have seen a lot of blind people so used to being taken by the hand and helped that they cannot even imagine being independant. Sad but true. Speakup will probably have a userspace component at some point to allow the use of devices like the Dectalk PC and software synthesis but it will never relegate blinks to the back seat of computing. Kirk [Good and pissed at folks that moan but can't take their thumb out of their asses to help] -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061