I think that every mother board has a plug for a PC speaker, and I wonder if one could get a high quality speaker of the correct ohmage. I think that PC speakers use 4 ohms. Glenn. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garrett Klein" <kleins@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 5:54 PM Subject: Re: Talking bios Or, as in my case, some comps don't have a PC speaker at all. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> To: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon at usgs.gov>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 11:53 AM Subject: Re: Talking bios > that would depend on the speaker. some newer machines barely have a pc > speaker so that would make speach unclear. some older machines I've > seen have really good pc speakers. another idea would be to pipe the > speaker through the onboard sound which most computers with onboard > audio do or to put an external speaker jack for the internal speaker. > On > Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 09:42:11AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote: > > That's a good point couldn't you make sound come out the pc speaker? > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Lorenzo Prince" <lorenzo at prince.homelinux.org> > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 9:10 AM > > Subject: Re: Talking bios > > > > > > > I guess the issue some people have is that perfect accessibility can only > > be achieved by making the bios talk for itself > > > instead of having to connect a very expensive device to it that can cost > > as much as the computer just to get it to talk. > > > I generally share that opinion, but I will also add that anything at all > > is better than nothing. > > > > > > PRINCE > > > > > > The famous speaker who no one had heard of said: > > > > How so? She can connect a device to her computer, and just like that > > the > > > > BIOS is accessible. How is that the oposit of accessible? That is the > > > > picture of accessible, as far as I can tell. > > > > > > > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Allan > > > > Shaw wrote: > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > -- > Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid > back. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
