Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 22:11:52 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Klaus_K=C3=BCchemann?= <maciphone2@googlemail.com> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accessibility in the FreeBSD installer and console Message-ID: <45ACA785-05BF-496B-8D0A-AD2A4A2293D1@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <a26455cf-0e86-7932-f9e4-f4cb013f7737@selasky.org> References: <a26455cf-0e86-7932-f9e4-f4cb013f7737@selasky.org>
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> Am 07.07.2022 um 19:32 schrieb Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky = org>: >=20 > Hi, >=20 > The only argument I've heard from some non-sighted friends about not = using FreeBSD natively is that ooh, MacOSX is so cool. It starts = speaking from the start if I press this and this key. Is anyone here = working on or wanting such a feature? Possibly they didn=E2=80=99t want to be rude and your friends didn't = tell you the other argument :-) : according to the corresponding wiki = page FreeBSD doesn't natively support any audio output at all on your = friends current M1 Mac hardware. since quite nothing is currently supported you probably will first take = over working on the Audio driver =E2=80=A6..and of course USB :-) > I mean it should be so much easier to text to speech our text based = unicode console, than what MacOSX is doing, by tracking screen changes = intelligently inside newcons in the kernel, and feeding that into a = character device, that to espeak or whatever can read it. nowadays called MacOS ( w/o the X)=E2=80=A6 as far as I remember even = System7 Mac of 1984 had text to speech features =20 so it might be hard to convince a Mac users with such a brand new voice = over killer app in native FreeBSD ;-)- but I would ask your friends who can judge that. >=20 > --HPS >=20 K.=
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