From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <45d6dac2880855b180feeb40092473fb@csplan9.rit.edu> To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:12:52 -0400 From: john@csplan9.rit.edu In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Are there any blind users of Plan 9? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 21a227ce-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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