Well for music you have allot of choices but if you want something that can play all the formats in the same program including video from the console I would say go with mplayer. it can play everything from wav and mp3 to real media and windows media. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaijin" <gaijin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 1:50 AM Subject: Re: What can I do with speakup? > Daniel Dalton <daniel,dalton47&gmail,com> grumbled: > > > Will I be able to do the following with speakup? > > Read and write email; > > Use pine or mutt. > > > Listen to music; > > Not sure about that one. > > > brows the net; > > Use lynx or links. > > > program; > > Use any text editor and 'make' away. > > > write text files; > > Use emacs, vi, vim, elvis, etc. > > > install software; > > Use tar, rpm, dpkg...whatever your distro uses. > > > Review compile errors with speech; > > No problem. > > > update my web site using ftp; > > No problem. > > > chat on irc > > Use bitchx. If you migrate to the GUI, youroptions will increase, > too. Then you can use Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office, etc. Check > out ttysynth.com and you can hear some Irishman putting the X GUI > through it's paces using ttysynth and orca. Sounded as good as the > commercial stuff. > > Michael > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
