Gregory Nowak <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> writes: > I'm in full agreement with you there. I will personally not buy a usb > synth, until I know that the manufacturer has released the specs for > it without requiring an NDA to be signed. This isn't going to happen. IIRC, the Tripple Talk USB came out 5 or 6 years ago. > Yes, gentoo, fedora, can be > installed over ssh. Grml, ubuntu can be installed with software > speech. However, what if someone wants to install and use a distro > like debian or slackware, that support neither option as far as I > know? If you have a laptop made in the last couple of years, you won't be able to do a talking install of Slackware, Debian, etc. This trend will become more pronounced; it's only a matter of time before hardware speech is nonviable. So we need to start thinking about long-term solutions. -- Chris
