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Linux for the blind?



We actually had Raman (and his dog), the person who wrote Emacspeak at one 
of our BLU meetings before he left Digital for Adobe. One of my military 
buddies uses a blind man as his computer GURU. I'll send him a note and 
I'll get some response.
John Abreau wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> 
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