Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!89!Carla.Campbell From: Carla.Campbell@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Carla Campbell) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: qedid Message-ID: <18579@bunker.isc-br.com> Date: 10 Apr 91 17:59:40 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.isc-br.com Reply-To: Carla.Campbell@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/89 - BlinkLink, Pittsburgh PA Lines: 47 Approved: wtm@bunker.hcap.fidonet.org Index Number: 14720 [This is from the Blink Talk Conference] WW> Since the only thing the speech program does WW> differently than the none speech friendly version is put the WW> menus in a consistant spot on the screen, it probably isn't WW> worth it to most of us. You may be right, Willie-- I would probably not have used it if I had not received it automatically after asking about it when registering. But I did, and I tried it, and I love it. It is not just that the menus are placed in a consistant place on the screen: they are written through BIOS so that they speak automatically. Wehn you hit "ctrl-k, w" (or whatever you have "write block to file" tied to, it says "write to file:". When you enter your choice and hit return, it says "writing file". This sounds trivial, but I like the confirmation of what I am doing more than I thought I would. When I hit "ctrl-s" to start a search, it says "search for". I like that. I like hearing "more" when I hit ctrl-k. and this from someone who complains about "excess chatter" from "made for speech" software, too. You don't have to set up monitors/hyperactive windows. You just load 'er up. The one annoying thing is that the things you enter at the prompts are also written through BIOS so that it repeats as you type. But I can live with that for the spoken prompts-- particularly when using features like "jump to line" of which I am unsure, having not used them extensively. (I'm too lazy to set up a silent/quiet window. ) I don't have to check the current line or look up two lines or whatever to see that I hit the right key. It says "jump to line:". Different strokes, and all that. but I like it. I have found myself using features of Qedit which I did not previously use just because they speak. You are correct, however, in saying that the version I have is slightly newer than the one you have on Blink Link. --Carla ... Read what I mean, not what I write! -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!129!89!Carla.Campbell Internet: Carla.Campbell@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org