I definitely agreed that EmacsSpeak and Speakup are different - exactly my point - if they can include EmacsSpeak, why not Speakup too?? At 08:26 PM 10/6/2002 -0400, you wrote: >On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 05:23:41PM -0700, Bear in SFO wrote: > > > > They do have EmacsSpeak don't they?! At least that's what I was told at > > Linux World 2002... > >Ok, so now we're talking about people not knowing what the differences >between Speakup and emacspeak are as far as how they work? >That's like saying that only one mail program should be included like pine >or mutt and just only that one. >Yes Speakup and Emacspeak are different but they both have their strengths >and weaknesses. I don't have any experience with Emacspeak, but from what >I've been told you cna basically do all the things with Emacspeak that you >can with Speakup except for the installation of the box. >I haven't done this yet but I will be using Emacspeak soon on my laptop >becuase I don't want to lug the synth around with me when I'm on the go so >will be using that on the laptop with software speech. >So both programs are good nad have their uses and both should stay in the >distribution. > >Tommy > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup