Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 09:08:24 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: alnyodr@polaris.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: speech for the blind and freebsd. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961108085643.3650J-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611081051.FAA22322@polaris.net>
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On Fri, 8 Nov 1996 alnyodr@polaris.net wrote: > I am a blind computer user, and the only software that I know of for > operating a computer (with speech output) is dos-based. > Does anyone know of something that can be used to work with freebsd? 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. I'm not familiar enough with systems programming to know how that would best be done, and the blind people I know are not computer users so I don't know much about what constitutes as useful screen reader. However, there are people around here intimately familiar with systems programming and with a good description of how a screen reader should work (from the user's point of view) they could probably give a quick estimate of how difficult it would be. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================
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