On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Thomas Ward wrote: > Well, I'd have the entire manual entry converted into a text file, save it, > and then if you wanted it in braille you'd have to configure a braille > printer under Linux. > If you want it in grade two then you'd have to setup something like megadots > for dos using the dosemu program. I'm pretty sure NFBTRANS will do this under linux. > Speakup is not a bad tts app, Speakup is not a TTS ap, it is a screen reader. Tuxtalk, festival and viavoice are TTS aps. > but it's biggest draw back is it will not give > you any speech access to the x-Windows server, x applications, or anything > with alot of graphical widgits. And the biggest drawback of a car is that it doesn't float on water. C'mon! Speakup was never designed or intended to provide access to the X windows environment, just as ASAP, vocaleyes and such don't provide access to MS windows. I gotta say, I don't really understand all the desire for access to X. It's not like DOS and windows. DOS was an 8 bit OS with many limitations, whereas Win32 is a 32 bit app with alleged multitasking, etc. X provides no functional advantages over the text console as all the power is in the OS itself, which is where it should be. X is a memory and resource hog and I know many sighted people who don't use it or use it minimally. OK, so there are a few aps that only work in X, but those are diminishing rapidly as text users take up the cause. Geoff.
