Janina, I think you're looking for "if wishes were hornets, we'd all get stung." ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 7:10 PM Subject: Re: New Linux PDA For Blind People > What is that old saying about should and would? Something like "If > wishes were horses ..." > > Lorenzo Taylor writes: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Actually, the few thousand more sales would, or at least should justify >> making a >> mainstream device usable by disabled people. We're talking about a few >> thousand >> more sales over the few million sales they already make. More is always >> better. >> And since they have already done the bulk of the r&d to simply make their >> product work, it isn't a big jump to make it work for people whose eyes >> don't >> work, especially since most of that r&d has already been done, and not >> just by >> assistive technology companies, but by companies who make products and >> services >> we use every day, such as TellMe, (voice recognition) and IBM, (voice >> recognition and voice synthesis). It is actually an extremely simple >> matter to >> figure out how to get info to a speech synthesizer, and translation of >> voice >> commands to typed characters and menu commands has already been done on a >> number >> of fronts. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
