Yes, but I'd much rather hit arrow, hit the enter key or click a virtual mouse as opposed to typping commands at a prompt. Greg On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 05:46:35PM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote: > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
