Fall back to other OS land... just for now, I hope

[Brian Lunergan]

Greetings all:

Found I had to return to the holdings of Lord William of Redmond for now. 
There are disability issues behind that move that make extended keyboard 
time difficult and sometimes downright painful. On this side of the pond it 
tends to be labelled with the oversimplification of repetitive strain 
injury. Any Brits on the list may have heard it referred to as 'work 
related upper limb disorder."

I would like to try Ubuntu/Kubuntu again but I have some questions I need 
answers to so conclusions can be drawn.

1) When I did try this first time it appears text to speech is well 
covered. That's not my problem. Heresy though it may be to want to use 
Linux but not be in love with the CLI approach to doing things, I need 
speech to text options for the time when mouse and microphone may be more 
functional input devices than the keyboard. XP has software such as the 
Dragon Naturally Speaking series. Is there anything similar for Linux in 
general, and Ubuntu in particular?

2) On the off-chance a mixed setup is more practical, is this Wubi 
installer available in both Ubuntu and Kubuntu? Is it stable to use or 
should I be thinking of a more conventional dual boot setup? Object being 
to use XP with speech rec capability and the things XP does well, and Linux 
for when keyboard (if speech rec is not available for Linux) is workable.

Regards...
-- 

Brian Lunergan
Nepean, Ontario
Canada


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