speechmike

[Kurt Wall]

An unnamed Administration source, ronnie gauthier, wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 16:37:18 +0200 - "Dr. Kai Wiechen"
> <pathologie at stadtkrankenhaus-worms.de> wrote the following
> Re: speechmike
> 
> >Hallo, 
> >
> >I have read your mail on linux users. Have I understand this correctly: you 
> >are able to use the speechmike under linux? Can you please give me the exact 
> >model you are using. What function keys are working?
> >
> 
> I do not at present use it and have not tried it on my RH7.3 I did however use
> it under Mandrake 7.2. I had it hooked up when I did a fresh install and it was
> detected as a serial mouse. Everything on top worked. Of course the mike and
> speaker are just dependant on a sound card no matter the OS.
> It is a Phillips SpeechMike #6173, and has on top a trackball inbetween L/R
> buttons. The bottom has the trigger which was flaky and at times could cause
> trouble, for why I have no idea and did not mess around to find out why. I just
> unplugged it and plugged in my normal serial mouse. But everything on top did
> work so depending on what you want to use it for it might work.
> 
> I actually gave up on linux as a platform for the disabled, at least for the
> time being. I could never get all the layers of stuff to either work at all
> or to act right when it did work.

There was a post on Slashdot a while back about Linux for the disabled.
Perhaps you?ve already found this link, but, just in case:

http://trace.wisc.edu/linux/

Kurt
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