Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 20:36:02 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: blind Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970805202042.17562g-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199708052117.XAA00893@wall.jhs.no_domain>
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On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > A retired ex programmer (Joe McB.) in Munich has gone blind ... > Does FreeBSD have any software available to let him work on a Unix box ? Check the mailing list archives. I believe the topic came up at some point in the past, but I only recall the discussion of theoretical software solutions (plus a sound card) as opposed to anything concrete, or anything employing specialized speech hardware. Hmm.... here is something if you don't mind living in emacs... http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/raman/emacspeak/emacspeak.html http://leb.net/blinux/ If you know *what* needs to be done (i.e. what constitutes a useful screen reader), actually implementing it shouldn't be that difficult. It seems to me that it should be possible to hack up window(1) or GNU screen to communicate with speech synthesis software or hardware. -john
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