I understand its going to be a java applet or something like for other platforms, so I am not sure what it will do. on Wednesday 10/06/2004 Gregory Nowak(greg at romuald.net.eu.org) wrote > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to speak freely's original author, it has already been left > in the dust, which is why he discontinued developing and supporting it > in January of this year. > > Greg > > > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:24:24PM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Well, David, if Ivocalize is going to Linux, it can't very well work > > with only IE, now can it? I have no idea what the techies are > > planning, but I'll tell you this, my friend. If they manage to port > > this system over to Linux, then I suggest that Speak-freely better rev > > itself up or it's going to be left in the dust! The ability of a web > > based client to incorporate audio, web and text chat is phenomenal. > > > > Now as far as Braille goes, the text chat is accessible, so, why > > couldn't somebody access that via braille. They'd be smart to put > > hooks in the thing for BrlTTY. > > > > If you want total text chat, then MOO is still your best bet there, > > David. You can't beat MOO. The messenger clients are fine, but MOO > > allows for more, and it can be made web accessible. > > > > Speak freely has none of these features, folks. You can't control its > > volume from within the program. You can't push web pages, you can't > > record. You can't moderate rooms and have people queued and so on. > > You can't raise your hand, none of this is now possible in Speak > > Freely. > > > > Look, guys, I like Linux just as well as all of you do, but for my > > needs, Ivocalize works just fine! Yes it's a Windows based thing, but > > it does what it's supposed to do, and I don't know any other client in > > Linux that does everything this one does. > > > > Ann P. > > > > -- > > Ann K. Parsons > > email: akp at eznet.net > > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > > "All that is gold does not glitter. > > Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > !DSPAM:416454da238475548819697! > > > > > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBZHs27s9z/XlyUyARAoKeAKDO3ekpC3Nesl5w740AKzyTpi3SmwCgtQIH > XSKTEHBJ7VtBf1YW4Iq80xw= > =dZ/X > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
