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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. > > > -- > 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 > > > > --==_Exmh_-670424408P > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Exmh version 2.5 01/15/2001 > > iQCVAwUBPIcWnlV9A5rVx7XZAQJp6wQAp8JeOdGcNEiiufLgauLzl3G/qLjmGyGD > 6Xs5v7cw2ohEjihjxFAd6NMYrz3XXbYOp6vJV46hEHOCaXTnAt65CfSCpL4VOn3m > WZe08BmRuc1N+ZgefS9Doq43jvm9PqXUt3JPiY5hVJhcViyW4FfxXD3VJhHmTbYj > VjUrNb2vv5U= > =z+Y6 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --==_Exmh_-670424408P-- > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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