serial conversion with speakup

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Oops. I goofed.

The Speakup Modified can be installed over telnet. It's the stock Fedora
Core that can't be installed that way.

Janina Sajka writes:
> Yes, an installation with software speech is certainly unlikely.
> Unfortunately, the current Speakup Modified can't install via telnet,
> either. We've filed the bug, but it isn't yet fixed.
> 
> I see two concerns here:
> 
> 1.)	What's the shortest path to a working system in the particular
> instance?
> 
> 2.)	What's the correct long-term solution?
> 
> The answer to #1 may be "use sighted assistance." Clearly, we have
> better answers for #2, but they will take longer.
> 
> 
> Gregory Nowak writes:
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> > Software speech is fine for general use, but, how would people do the
> > installation? After all, not all distros support installing via ssh or
> > telnet, and as we've seen in recent threads here, not all networking
> > hardware works right out of the box to start with.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 09:38:32PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > Frankly, I would just go with software speech--especially if you have a
> > > decent audio system on that laptop and are able to play other audio
> > > while getting software speech.
> > > 
> > > To my mind any kind of attachment on a laptop is a nuisance, whether its
> > > a serial cable to an external synth, or a pcmcia card plus the cable and
> > > the hw synth, or a usb cable and synth for that matter. I believe
> > > laptops are more easily used without extra appendages hanging off every
> > > port.
> > > 
> > 
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> > _______________________________________________
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> 
> -- 
> 	
> 				Janina Sajka, Chair
> 				Accessibility Workgroup
> 				Free Standards Group (FSG)
> 
> janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040
> 

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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040





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