On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Janina Sajka wrote: > I think the reason that "speaks from boot" is given in support Speakup > is that it's the easiest to give and defend. It happens Speakup is also > extremely useful aat the shell prompt, less so in document editing, > where it's lack of good cursor tracking puts it well behind emacspeak. > Thing is, there's really nothing else in speech that's any better. > > Another extremely strong point is that Speakup is very eaasy to learn. > Extremely easy. There's a lot of paayback there for new users. And, this > even benefits the user starting to learn emacs, because it's possible to > have both speakup and emacspeak active at the same time. I do this, and > use Insert+Enter on the numeric to silence Speakup in my emacs session. That's awesome. Now (back to the original _technical_ issue)... Why couldn't you have the exact same result from a user space Speakup? And then allow yourself to use it on your laptop without any extra hardware hooked to it? Why does it need to be in the kernel? Nicolas