Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:18:20 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: bastill@adam.com.au Cc: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com, David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>, Romana Branden <romana@timelady.com>, linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Protecting Windows Message-ID: <43EDABDC.2040509@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <200602100934.09752.bastill@adam.com.au> References: <200602091432.44622.bastill@adam.com.au> <200602092239.46155.bastill@adam.com.au> <43EB9CD8.90901@timelady.com> <200602100934.09752.bastill@adam.com.au>
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Brian Astill wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:19 am, Romana Branden wrote:> Brian Astill > wrote: >>> Interesting. The "spiel" on the Nuance website gave me that >>> impression, too. However the Royal Society for the Blind in >>> Adelaide tried v 7 (current is 8) and were VERY unimpressed. >> anything they recommend that we could test on crossover or wine? > > Yes - they use ZoomText 9 and Jaws 7. These aren't "the same" as DSN > but do a somewhat similar job. > FWIW, I did some localisation work for a product that supported the Jaws* reader for windows (cant remember the version). The Jaws software loaded in memory and it would get the handle for each object that had focus (a handle in Windows world is like a pointer to the object in the session...or something like that). Jaws would search a particular resource in that object and read it aloud. If that label didnt exist it'd fallback for the text in the object (which wasn't always ideal). Anyway, I'm pretty certain there are text-to-voice software for *BSD and GNU/Linux (avoiding flames from RMS ;) ). Maybe a similar approach could be taken under X? Not sure at all how you'd go about text based software that is not ncurses based (maybe a similar approach to lynx / links ? ). Voice to text is another BEAST altogether, and a lot harder than text to voice. Training of the software to your particular voice is the first part of the process, of course, but I doubt it ends there... (on the side... does Asterix support for voice-based menu selections? The technology for that (not voip itself, but the recognition bit) would be quite similar to what an end user would need, i would say) I'm sure there is a group somewhere doing something about this. anyway, http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Accessibility-HOWTO/index.html is an (old) start, i guess ;) Regards, Beto
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