From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 8 11:31:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA03003 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:31:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from hod.tera.com (hod.tera.com [206.215.142.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA02998 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:30:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [206.215.142.62]) by hod.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA10024; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:30:19 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA19501; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:30:18 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199611081930.LAA19501@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: speech for the blind and freebsd. In-Reply-To: from "T. William Wells" at "Nov 8, 96 12:38:41 pm" To: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:30:18 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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