My only knock against Speakup is it's strictly command line based. If I'm sitting in front of a linux desktop, I want to be able to use a lot of the actual desktop applications. Certain IM clients, for example. Plus, my limited money for hardware means I can't wander out and get my hands on a speech synth. Otherwise, when I install linux on my laptop in the next month or so I'd go with Speakup over Orca. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Trevor Astrope Sent: January 13, 2009 12:07 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: speakup is nice Yep. I've tried orca and even bought a mac. The only time I use them is for online banking and sites where links doesn't work. Otherwise, speakup is my goto screen reader. I agree that we don't say enough just how great and liberating it is! On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, John G. Heim wrote: > I think it's not said often enough. Speakup is really, really nice. > Lets face it, when the chips are down, you always fall back on speakup > don't you? I know I do. The accessible debian install,er, talking grml > CD, plus several a talking Windows installer I built myself. They all > depend on speakup. Speakup is like that old PC you have that always > works even when that new flashiy one is on the fritz again.You know > what I mean? You've got your flashy new laptop or whatever but in an emergency, don't you want your old one running speakup? > Say your network is down and you need to make a serial port > connection. What do you want? I want speakup. When a machine won't > boot, you put in your grml CD with speakup don't you? If I'm in a > panic, I always just want something with speakup. > > -- > John G. Heim > jheim at math.wisc.edu 3-4189 > http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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
