Screader sounds primitive when compared to Speakup. I'm glad I never
heard of it other than that oblique reference in the blind-l list. It
seems like a waste of time. What attracted me to Speakup was when I heard
Linux speaking from initialization to shutdown.
Jim Wantz
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Dave Hunt wrote:
> Screader is not built into the kernel. At one point, there were two
> daemons you had to run: the review daemon, and the 'tts' daemon. In the
> case of a synthesizer on a serial port, the latter was simply a 'cat
> >>/dev/ttyS0 '' on my installation. Screader's lack of controls ffor a
> specific synthesizer and its strange reading behavior turned me off, so, I
> haven't been following its development.
>
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> -- Dave --
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