Good news, indeed, Saqib. May I also suggest yasr and eflite, to go along with flite? Very helpful in circumstances where one has to have simple console access with software speech. On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > Hi, > > Having just finished my exams yesterday, I've been talking to Patrick > Volkerding (aka Mr Slackware). He's very interested in accessibility. As you > may know he already has Speakup boot-disks in the original distribution. > > I asked him if he would consider adding Emacspeak, and there and then, he > did it! He asked if you needed other software to use different devices, and > I told him you needed Emacspeak-SS for other synths. He added this too! And > then, he added BrlTTY as well, and is considering adding Flite and NFBTrans > (though maybe not in 8.1). > > So all in all, with Redhat having Emacspeak, Debian coming with > Emacspeak/Emacspeak-ss/Brltty, and Slackware coming with all of > Speakup/Emacspeak/Emacspeak-ss/BrlTTY and offering to compile the Doubletalk > PC driver into the default kernel, Linux and console accessibility really > does look good (IMHO). > > Just thought I'd let you guys know this, and look forward to Slackware 8.1 > being released. > > Saqib > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
