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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Subject: Re: speech for the blind and freebsd.
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Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 12:38:41 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961108085643.3650J-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> from "John Fieber" at Nov 8, 96 09:08:24 am
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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.