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Re: emacspeak away from pc's
well, I do most of my work at home sitting out in the patio with a
cordless headset and a $10.0 qwerty keyboard connected by a 60ft wire
--it's wired through the attic.
Wireless keyboards are still surprizing expensive.
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Tim> I've run emacspeak on Sun and DEC/Compaq alphas (ES40s) witht
Tim> he sound coming back to my pc. Its been a while, but it
Tim> worked well when I was doing it.
Tim> I really like Greg's solution - speech being fed to you from
Tim> your wearable pc. Combining this with wireless networks and
Tim> you would have a vary flexible work environment. If you were
Tim> a student or someone who has to use public/semi-public pc
Tim> labs, this woud be very nice as you would have the
Tim> flexibility to use any available pc in the lab. I loke that.
Tim> When I was a student, there was a specific PC which had the
Tim> necessary hardware I needed and sometimes, it was difficult
Tim> to get access to that one PC. Speech fed via the wearable
Tim> would have provided just the solution needed.
Tim> Tim
>>>>> "T" == T V Raman <raman@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
T> You could run emacspeak on something like a mainframe and have
T> it talk to a speech server running on your laptop or desktop
T> --haven't done this myself.
T> But it should work since that is precisely what the ability to
T> run a remote speech server is designed for -- when working at
T> home or on the road (connected to the nework)-- I typically use
T> the home machine or laptop as a thin client to my desktop
T> workstation that runs a persistent emacspeak session for weeks
T> on end.>>>>> "Robert" == Robert J Chassell
T> <bob@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Robert> What do other emacspeak users use when away from the pc?
Robert>
I don't know what people do when not using a personal
Robert> computer, but I
am running Emacspeak on my pc, which is
Robert> an IBM Thinkpad running Debian
GNU/Linux. This laptop
Robert> is not too big; you should find it relatively convenient
Robert> for that reason. And, of course, you have multiple
Robert> consoles, many users can log in, so you can separate your
Robert> regular work
from system administrative work, you can
Robert> serve Web pages and other
info, and so forth. It is a
Robert> proper machine.
I work as a physio (physical
Robert> therapist) and so the notebood-sized
computer has
Robert> advantages, since I need to move around at work.
For
Robert> your purposes, a wearable might be best, as Greg
Robert> suggested.
Just curious: is anyone running Emacspeak
Robert> something other than a pc,
such as an IBM S390
Robert> mainframe? I know you can run GNU Emacs on it,
but I
Robert> don't know whether the 390 has an audio driver.
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