I have plenty of time, so go ahead. I understand about Finals. Mine start on may 1. Jane On Apr 12, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote: > Hi > Speakup is a Linux screen reader which operates at the kernel level. > Thus, it requires Linux and is not capable of running on OS X (or any > other OS for that matter), it would have to be completely rewritten > to allow this. However, I'd be willing to bet that YASR, another UNIX > screen reader, could be made to work though you'd need a hardware > synthesizer to use it unless support for Apple voices could be worked > in, which is probably possible though using those at the same time as > VO would probably cause the same conflict as most other speaking apps > attempting to do this. YASR isn't as robust as speakup but it can do > most things, and it already compiles on FreeBSD. I'll work on this, > if someone doesn't do it first, when I get the time which should be > in a few weeks once finals are over. It shouldn't be too much work, > as it operates at the shell level itself, it doesn't need anything > from the OS other than to open a PTY to read the output. Would be > nice to have terminal reading automatically. > > > On Apr 12, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote: > >> Has anyone tried running Speakup on the Mac? Will it work? I want >> to try using it with the terminal we have, but not sure if it can be >> done. Anyone tried it? Will it work with Mac voices, or will I have >> to get a differnt synthesizer or what? :) >> >> Jane >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
