As it happens, IBM's ViaVoice is not open source. On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Alex Snow wrote: > If emaxspeak has the software synth, why cant speakup "steal" it? Arn't they > both Open source? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Hunt <" <wx1g at attbi.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 2:27 AM > Subject: peaceful coexistence of Speakup and Emacspeak > > > > Hi, > > > > I have speakup and emacspeak both available on this computer, and am > > glad of that. I'm using Emacspeak, now, with the sound card acting as > > my synthesizer. One cannot do this, yet, with speakup. While setting > > the Linux side of this machine up, I didn't have the sound card > > working under Linux for quite a while. It was only with the help of > > Speakup and this list that I was able to fix this. If you can have > > both, do it! > > > > -Dave > > > > Anna Schneider writes: > > > And this is in response to Evonne. > > > > > > Speak Up and Emacs Speak. Right now I'm going to try bot. Maybe I'll > > > like one better than the other, though the whole synthesizer thing > sounds > > > messy. I'll have to think about that. Can either program run with the > > > sound card only? And I'll go do reading on Emacs where you suggested. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
