Re: [9fans] Are there any blind users of Plan 9?

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

charles ported rsynth some time ago, here's the link

http://www.terzarima.net/plan9/dist/rsynth.tgz

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
> I'm blind in only one eye and have low vision in the other, so I run Plan 9
> in a virtual machine with an enlarged screen using Mac OS X's Universal
> Access.
> The concept of a Text-to-Speech program for Plan 9 has been floating in my
> head for some time. How can it be made to use some of Plan 9's features
> (/dev/*ctl, /srv, text-based commands, etc.)? I was thinking either
> something like
> echo say (voice) (ipa-pronounciation) > /dev/speech
> echo sayword (voice) (word) > /dev/speech
> then use such a device to build a screen reader.
> PS -
> On Oct 20, 2008, at 6:15 AM, Jeff R. Allen wrote:
>
> PS: Heh, just found this: http://lsub.org/magic/man2html/1/emacs
>
> That's in the PDF. In fact, it's on the GNU Humor page now, too. I wonder
> how vi is related anymore, though.
>



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Federico G. Benavento