Hi Ann,

On 4 Apr 2004 at 17:35, Ann Parsons spoke, thus:

[Snip]
> I run Emacs and Speakup concurrently.  

Well, don't forget that you've got a braille display right there on your 
BrailleNote!  Try BRLTTY - you'll like it if you're a braille animal.  It 
works with BNs, but the only thing I hate about it is that if you have the 
QT you have to use the SDF JKL keys to input braille.  I'd love to use the 
actual keyboard.  Oh, well.  Anyway, just in case you felt Speakup was the 
only screen reader - BRLTTY works much better with standalone apps IMHO 
than Speakup, and it tracks the focus very well.  Links (the things you 
click on), Pine (urgh), Mutt, Gopher, Nano, Vim, and a whole loada stuff 
suddenly become accessible.  Find BRLTTY info at 
http://www.mielke.cc/brltty/ .  You may be able  to get binary packages 
for your distro.  For Debian it'll be "apt-get install brltty".  If you 
use Slackware, I advise you to go fetch the source and compile it (or ask 
someone else to do that for you - I'd be quite happy to oblige there).  
Equally, there are other speech packages like Jupiter and YASR.  Last, if 
you do in fact have more than one com port there is no reason why you 
can't use both Speakup and BRLTTY or any other braille-and-speech 
combination, the same holds if you use YASR with Flite or Festival for 
speech.

> <smile>  This is an Off Topic subject so best to quit now.

errrrr... just a wee little titchy bit.  But I mentioned that BRLTTY works 
with the BrailleNote, so I'm alright. :-)

Cheers,
Sabahattin
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