Re: speakup at university

["Ron Marriage" <marriage seidata com>]

In this case your probable best bet is to
drop speakup and use emacspeak.  You
won't need any special permissions from
the university network department, and
they won't inconvenience others with odd
key combinations that aren't standard.

In most university systems you will have
your own account and user directory.  Set
up emacspeak here and in any of your
classes you will be able to use it.

You will be able to get emacspeak versions
to work not only on your linux machines, but
most other unix varieties, but also for the
windows environment. (never used it myself
but assume it works the same).

If at sometime you do develope a screen
reader or audio environment of your own
that works well, be sure to let everyone know
about it.  While this is a great goal, I have to
say that I taught computer science and
programming, and never wrote one that
compares to emacspeak.  Of course, I'm more
inclined to write a warehouse inventory
program than an OS, of course then you have
to factor in that I'm pretty lazy too. <LOL>

Ron


----- Original Message -----
From: Saqib Shaikh <saqib saqib-shaikh freeserve co uk>
To: <speakup braille uwo ca>; <blinux-newbie egroups com>;
<blinux-list redhat com>
Cc: <kirk braille uwo ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 1:52 PM
Subject: speakup at university


> hi all,
> sorry for the cross posting, but i need as good as answer
as there
> is, as this is a pretty important decision.  i am
currently using
> speakup with zipslack, and find it good, since the
zipspeak
> distribution is the only one where you don't need to
compile source
> for the speech program because mr campbell has already
done
> that. anyway, i am really looking at the long term and in
october i
> will be going to university to read computer science and
will be
> required to use many of the laboratory computers, many
running
> linux. ok, the university aren't going to be kene on my
patching
> their kernel so that when my synth isn't connected the
computer
> will crash! even if it doesn't crash speakup may cause
trouble with
> other user's as they would still have to take heed of the
speakup
> hotkeys. is there a solution to this problem? wel, the
first i guessis
> to ask whether it wuld be possible to have my own boot
disk, then
> log onto the university network with speech? secondly,
i'll probably
> end up writing my own non kernel based screen reader!
please,
> anyone give advice since i believe many of you gang must
be at uni
> yourselves since many email addresses imply this.
> thanks, regards, saqib shaikh
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