[geeks] Q: Regarding Linux in K-12 education

[Phil Stracchino]

On 01/17/10 18:26, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> Agreed. The supporter of Linux in our district has decided that we  
> shouldn't pay for software when there is so much high-quality software  
> available. He dismisses every application not available as not  
> important (like Dragon Naturally Speaking for kids with learning  
> disabilities) as 'trivial' and not worth talking about, but we have  
> students whose academic success relies on those applications, most of  
> which are only available on Windows...

Good example.  I've been looking for a long time for a decent
speech-recognition (and vice versa, text-to-speech) application for
anything but Windows.  I've yet to find either.  (Yes, I know about
Festival for test-to-speech.  I tried to set it up once.  I got nowhere.)



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