Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:30:18 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speech for the blind and freebsd. Message-ID: <199611081930.LAA19501@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <m0vLut7-0001DRC@twwells.com> from "T. William Wells" at "Nov 8, 96 12:38:41 pm"
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According to T. William Wells: > > 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. > Let me throw this out, FWIT: Sun may have some tools that could be ported to the BSD realm. A friend who worked at Sun for many years once mentioned that the company has done a lot of work in the dis-ABILITY field. gary kline http://pobox.com/slt/revenge/respons.html
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