From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 8 06:08:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA05011 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 06:08:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA05002 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 06:08:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA07895; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 09:08:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 09:08:24 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber Reply-To: John Fieber To: alnyodr@polaris.net cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speech for the blind and freebsd. In-Reply-To: <199611081051.FAA22322@polaris.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 8 Nov 1996 alnyodr@polaris.net wrote: > I am a blind computer user, and the only software that I know of for > operating a computer (with speech output) is dos-based. > Does anyone know of something that can be used to work with freebsd? There is a program in the Ports collection called rsynth that does decent, but relatively slow, text to speech. As for interfacing it to the console driver to make a usable screen reader, that would be more difficult. I'm not familiar enough with systems programming to know how that would best be done, and the blind people I know are not computer users so I don't know much about what constitutes as useful screen reader. However, there are people around here intimately familiar with systems programming and with a good description of how a screen reader should work (from the user's point of view) they could probably give a quick estimate of how difficult it would be. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================