Re: Accessible emulators for Linux or Windows?

["Laine Houghton" <laine@intergate.com>]

"Jayson Smith" <nospamratguyspambegone@nospamplease.bellsouth.ihatespam.net>
wrote in message news:crH1d.156461$%n4.44024@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> Hello there,
> The method of text to speech is a screen reader on my PC in conjunction
with
> a hardware speech synthesizer.  It's basically done a line at a time.  The
> curser doesn't bother me.  On a real Apple, I have an Echo speech
> synthesizer and the Textalker software.  Man that'd be nifty, if somebody
> could come out with an emulator which emulated an Echo card!
> What I'd really love is an emulator for use on Linux.  Win32 console
> applications are accessible, but not quite as good as MS-DOS applications.
> Win32 GUI applications are accessible but through a different screen
reader
> which isn't quite as flexible.  Linux applications, as long as they're
> console applications E.G. no X/GTK/Gnome/etc. work wonderfully as I can
use
> Telnet to get into the Linux box from remote.  Hope this helps.
> Jayson.

In the not to distant past there were pictures posted of the echo II.. That
is my only experience with the card. I haven't a clue of the chips involved
or their functions. I was thinking more along the lines of converting the
graphics screens to text. That being limited to 40/80 column text. If the
echo handled conversion of the low, high and double high resolution screens
that is beyond my ability at this point.

Laine...