-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 No, speakup won't work through a converter, but just about anything else, especially user space programs will work through a converter just fine. Greg On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:57:07AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > The big problem here presently is Speakup is locked to the hardware > based addresses for a standard internal serial port. It has been my > understanding that these USB to serial port converters won't work with > Speakup in its present form. Until that gets corrected, the software > speech argument stands. > > Also, I thought new computers so often come without serial ports that > some day, you wouln't be able to even find one. > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGTewt7s9z/XlyUyARAn5uAJ4gATFw9ha2ih0ecV7S2HU+lvB7LQCdHus3 VjKopWSkFBy0KMVWHGiDI0A= =xT+E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----