hi, On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Schmills wrote:

Hi,

I wasn't aware that Suse 7.3 has been released. <g>

Does Suse 7.3 have standalone speech support, that is can it be used with speech alone without having to have a Braille display conected at the same time? no, there is still the kernel-problem you can't get the keyboard information from the kernel with a patch

so you are not able to navigate without a brailledisplay regards marco

cheers,

Doris

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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:40:36AM -0500, Schmills wrote:

Does Suse 7.3 have standalone speech support, that is can it be used with speech alone without having to have a Braille display conected at the same time?

Hi, Not really. But if you have a hardware Synthesizer like dectalk or doubletalk Slackware would provide you with a build in Screen reader: speakup. go to http://www.linux-speakup.org/ The Debian distribution incorporates Emacspeak which contains speechservers for some Hardware Synths and IBM Outloud (Via Voice). It is also possible to find a speechserver for Mbrola. With regards, Vladyslav