Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 12:14:35 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speech for the blind and freebsd. Message-ID: <199611081914.MAA12966@seagull.rtd.com> 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
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