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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: speech for the blind and freebsd.
To: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 12:14:35 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <m0vLut7-0001DRC@twwells.com> from "T. William Wells" at Nov 8, 96 12:38:41 pm
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> > 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.
> 
> Hm.
> 
> 	script foo
> 	tail -f foo | rsynth
> 
> Probably not exactly what you'd do but the point is that kernel
> modifications aren't needed *at all*. Pseudo terminals will do
> the job quite nicely.

Well, I suspect you *could* use pty's -- but it would require a
much more sophisticated *user* interface.  You need to be able to
walk from word to word, line to line, spell, etc.

It's not a trivial problem...
--don