From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <401A7C73.7070200@linuxlink.com> From: "Michael H. Collins" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031209 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Proposed Aid for the nearly blind References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:46:59 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c8154382-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Right now i use speechd in linux. I creates a /dev/speech and anything piped to it gets spoken. Jim Choate wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Michael H. Collins wrote: > > >>I have used emacspeak for years. >> >>http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/ >> >>http://www.teledyn.com/help/linux/Emacspeak/ > > > Old Amigas have it over just about every other solution with respect to > speech since it's built into the OS (ie say "Hello Ravage"). I still use a > A2000 GVP 030 Video Toaster for 'reading' text files when I need/want voice > output. The actual voice mechanics are less than easy but the defaults are > usable. Couple this with ARexx and the various Rexx ports (not ports as in > other apps but a app control/data xfer interface) in the apps (again both > expected) and it makes it possible to blue apps together I've never seen > in another OS before or since. > > To each their own. > > -- -- > > Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs, Networks, & Game Consoles > 512-695-4126 (Austin, Tx.) help@open-forge.com irc.open-forge.com > > Hangar 18 Open Source Distributed Computing Using Plan 9 & Linux > 512-451-7087 http://open-forge.org/hangar18 irc.open-forge.org > > James Choate 512-451-7087 ravage@ssz.com jchoate@open-forge.com > > > -- Michael H. Collins Admiral, Penguinista Navy http://linuxlink.com http://www.gracklenews.com/