Ay, I have to say that the only problem Speakup has ever has is it doesn't type for me thus it doesn't fix all the spelling errors. Seriously though, I find Speakup to be one incredible piece of work. Its made such a difference in my life. Not to sound hokie or anything, but Speakup and Linux have really brought my interest in computers far beyond my wildest dreams. Trapped inmicroslop hell limited me to what I could do and learn. SOme may argue, but I can assure you that there's little windows has ever offered and certainly has never made any task as simple as Linux and Speakup. Kirk and those who have contributed to the development of Speakup deserve a big thank you. I take every opportunity to tell folks about Speakup and the wonderful things the folks involved have done. --- Scott On 20 Aug 2001, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Let me give a tad of clarification for the new and prospective speakup > users. Speakup allows you to have full editing capabilities, at least > as full as any text based application under gnu/Linux. > > I use emacs with speakup with absolutely no difficulty and am using it > currently to write this note. I do not use emacspeak although I under > stand it is a fine product. > > Now where some folks are complaining about speakups lack is in > automatic cursor speaking. Speakup tracks the cursor perfectly and is > pretty well always where your cursor is. What speakup does not do is > automatically speak the line you are moving to. It does not > automatically say the characters you are moving onto. It does track > the cursor though. There is an experimental mode of cursor speaking > in the cvs version of speakup which in some applications works as well > as any screen review package. In other applications it doesn't work > so well. > > I am only saying these things because it creates a false impression > that somehow speakup is inferior and it just plain isn't. I would be > very happy to have folks help with fixing this situation of automatic > speaking. It is not a trivial problem to do correctly. It is also > not that high on my priority list because I have no problem writing, > coding, reading and editing with it the way it currently works. > > Kirk > >
