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

[john@csplan9.rit.edu]

> 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.
>

Better to have something like:
	echo 'voice AmericanMale' > /dev/speechctl
	echo 'values of β may give rise to dom!' > /dev/speech
This way you do all setup in the ctl file and only send the things you
want said to /dev/speech

For a simplest first implementation, it may be best to try interfacing
with a Festival TTS server on a UNIX box rather than developing a
text-to-speech application for Plan 9--Nemo, isn't that what you have
at lsub?

John