From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <32d987d50810201400x7b653959j89645c48e9ace95d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:00:13 -0100 From: "Federico G. Benavento" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <87prlw7y4g.fsf@cox.net> <599f06db0810200256w10d8bb36s6c8afb5f0413a03e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Are there any blind users of Plan 9? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 22c4ea42-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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. > -- Federico G. Benavento