Hi, speakup and Emacspeak are different things. Emacspeak is an audio desktop. If you work in it, you will edit text, send e-mails and other things more straitforward. But you will not learn linux commands. Speakup, on the contrary, is a screen reader. So, you will have to learn to use the same applications that every one uses and will need to learn some shell commands. In terms of study, speakup is preferible because you will interact with linux at the bottom line. There is a software synthesizer for speakup but I didn't figure out how to install it. But if you have an external synthesizer, maybe a good idea is to use zipspeak, a mini distribution that can be installed in a harddisk formated to use DOS or windows. It already has speakup patched so you will only need to unzip it and use! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beth Wright" <beth.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 1:02 PM Subject: Linux with speech: which way to go? > Hi. I'm just starting to learn about Linux, and am wondering which speech > package (if that's the right word) I should choose, EmacSpeak or SpeakUp. > From what little I can understand, I gather that the folks on this list much > prefer SpeakUp, but like to have EmacSpeak around as sort of a backup. My > problem is that I only have software speech on my PC, and apparently won't > work with SpeakUp. I don't have Linux installed yet and, before I get > someone over here to help me, I'd like to be in a position to give them a > few suggestions on how to proceed. I'd sure appreciate any pointers I can > get from some of you more experienced users. > > Beth Wright > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
