French speech music and so on

French speech music and so on

[Jean Philippe]

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> Hello to every one,
I'm French, blind of course, and  dived into the Computerworld about three years ago, and like many others,, I started with a PC with Windows and the ever popular jaws screen reader which I am still using at the moment.
> I am now interested in knowing more about the alternatives to Windows and especially Linux.  I would like to know what exists under Linux for musicians
who wish to compose and record their music, and also if any French-speaking solution exists for LINUX.
> Hope you have answers for me,
> Thank you and best regards,
> Jean-Philippe Rykiel

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Re: French speech music and so on

[Karen Lewellen]

Greetings,
welcome to this list.  Aside from suggesting speakup.
www.speakup.org
I think that is right, may I make a different alternative suggestion that 
might serve your needs even better.
You may  want to look at the latest Mac systems.
the screen reader, voice over, is built into all current systems, and can 
be added to some previous ones.  it is far more stable than windows could 
ever hope  to be and far more cost affective than that alternative.
Additionally as a musician you will have greater, more industry standard 
options than Linux currently offers.  Although I am unsure what your needs 
are here.
the mac setup will give you full access right out of the box to mac music 
applications,
and will soon include this access for pro tools one of the more widely 
used applications.
If you wish to learn more about this, feel free to write me off list.
Karen


On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Jean Philippe wrote:

>> Hello to every one,
> I'm French, blind of course, and  dived into the Computerworld about three years ago, and like many others,, I started with a PC with Windows and the ever popular jaws screen reader which I am still using at the moment.
>> I am now interested in knowing more about the alternatives to Windows and especially Linux.  I would like to know what exists under Linux for musicians
> who wish to compose and record their music, and also if any French-speaking solution exists for LINUX.
>> Hope you have answers for me,
>> Thank you and best regards,
>> Jean-Philippe Rykiel
>

Re: French speech music and so on

[Janina Sajka]

Generally speaking, the Linux environment is not accessible in the same
way as Windows for blind musicians. There are tasks that people perform
with applications like Sonar which are not available to us on LInux. On
the other hand, I would argue that there are tasks which can be
performedfar more reliably and with greater accessibility on LInux. So,
much depends on what you want to do. Much also depends on your
proficiency with Linux. In general, I believe Linux music making
requires greater technical proficiency but rewards you with more
reliable performance. At the very least you will need to be very
comfortable with command line interfaces, something which now appears
trange and quixotic to those blind people who have been first introduced
to computing under Windows in the past decade.

Places to start:

ecasound
http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/

It is not easy to learn ecasound, but it is a very powerful application.

You should also look at:

http://www.audiosynth.com/
http://linux-sound.org/toc.html
Also look at the applications for music/audio editing at
http://www.linux-speakup.org

You should subscribe to the Linux Audio User list:
http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user

Good luck.

Jean Philippe writes:
> > Hello to every one,
> I'm French, blind of course, and  dived into the Computerworld about three years ago, and like many others,, I started with a PC with Windows and the ever popular jaws screen reader which I am still using at the moment.
> > I am now interested in knowing more about the alternatives to Windows and especially Linux.  I would like to know what exists under Linux for musicians
> who wish to compose and record their music, and also if any French-speaking solution exists for LINUX.
> > Hope you have answers for me,
> > Thank you and best regards,
> > Jean-Philippe Rykiel

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Re: French speech music and so on

[hank smith]

that or get a mac

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
To: "Jean Philippe" <jp.rykiel@noos.fr>; "Linux for blind general 
discussion" <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: French speech music and so on


> Generally speaking, the Linux environment is not accessible in the same
> way as Windows for blind musicians. There are tasks that people perform
> with applications like Sonar which are not available to us on LInux. On
> the other hand, I would argue that there are tasks which can be
> performedfar more reliably and with greater accessibility on LInux. So,
> much depends on what you want to do. Much also depends on your
> proficiency with Linux. In general, I believe Linux music making
> requires greater technical proficiency but rewards you with more
> reliable performance. At the very least you will need to be very
> comfortable with command line interfaces, something which now appears
> trange and quixotic to those blind people who have been first introduced
> to computing under Windows in the past decade.
>
> Places to start:
>
> ecasound
> http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/
>
> It is not easy to learn ecasound, but it is a very powerful application.
>
> You should also look at:
>
> http://www.audiosynth.com/
> http://linux-sound.org/toc.html
> Also look at the applications for music/audio editing at
> http://www.linux-speakup.org
>
> You should subscribe to the Linux Audio User list:
> http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
>
> Good luck.
>
> Jean Philippe writes:
>> > Hello to every one,
>> I'm French, blind of course, and  dived into the Computerworld about 
>> three years ago, and like many others,, I started with a PC with Windows 
>> and the ever popular jaws screen reader which I am still using at the 
>> moment.
>> > I am now interested in knowing more about the alternatives to Windows 
>> > and especially Linux.  I would like to know what exists under Linux for 
>> > musicians
>> who wish to compose and record their music, and also if any 
>> French-speaking solution exists for LINUX.
>> > Hope you have answers for me,
>> > Thank you and best regards,
>> > Jean-Philippe Rykiel
>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Blinux-list mailing list
>> Blinux-list@redhat.com
>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
>
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> Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040
> Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com
> Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go 
> to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.
>
> Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG)
> janina@freestandards.org http://a11y.org
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Re: French speech music and so on

[Gilles Casse]

Jean Philippe writes:
 > I would like to know what exists under Linux for musicians
 > who wish to compose and record their music,

You could also be interested by the Linux text-based studio project
(ltsb) by Julien Claassen.

* the news from the Linux Audio Blog: 
http://linuxaudioblog.jawebada.de/documentation/linux-text-based-studio.html

* and the project website:
http://ltsb.sf.net

A+

Gilles


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