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David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> writes: > I had someone who is blind ask me about speech synthesis and screen > readers etc for Linix for blind people. Of course I will scour the web > and do my own research, but I was wondering if anyone had experience with > any packages for this, or could suggest resources. > > My preliminary research turned up a lot of dead projects. That's why I'm > asking. Thanks. Emacspeak comes to mind; lat time I looked into it, Emacspeak was considered the best Unix environment for visually-impaired computing. At the time it required DECtalk to generate the spoken voice, but I believe recent versions of it now use the Festival voice synthesizer suite. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER jabr at jabber.org / YAHOO abreauj Email jabr at blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 344 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20020307/307d1369/attachment.sig>
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