From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 6633 invoked by uid 0); 10 Oct 1996 21:40:19 -0000 MBOX-Line: From brian@henge.com Thu Oct 10 23:39:04 1996 Received: (qmail 6518 invoked by uid 504); 10 Oct 1996 21:28:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 6509 invoked from smtpd); 10 Oct 1996 21:28:55 -0000 Received: from cublx2.cube.net (root@194.97.64.61) by goldfish.cube.net with SMTP; 10 Oct 1996 21:26:54 -0000 Received: from zygote.ivory.com ([204.144.151.179]) by cublx2.cube.net with ESMTP id <25275-380>; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 02:01:04 +0200 Received: (from root@localhost) by zygote.ivory.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA01844; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 17:44:02 -0600 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 17:44:02 -0600 Message-Id: <199610092344.RAA01844@zygote.ivory.com> To: malv0002@gold.tc.umn.edu From: brian@henge.com CC: blinux-list@goldfish.cube.net In-reply-to: (message from michael malver on Wed, 9 Oct 1996 00:13:40 +0200 (EET)) Subject: Re: UltraSonix screen-reader for X-windows available at BLINUX site List-Id: Hello Michael, > pardon my ignorance. I am glad to see that we can use x-windows, > but will this program also support standard unix shells such as bash, or > tcsh? Absolutely! Running a shell in a X-terminal is peanuts compared to many more complicated applications. UltraSonix is not written with any particular application in mind. You want shells? We got shells! > Also, are there plans to support other synthesizers? I use a > keynnote gold internal. I am pretty sure humanware would give the > documentation out to a programmer willing to attempt the task. Absolutely again. The more, the merrier! UltraSonix has a good interface so as to make the addition of other devices reasonably straightforward. > also, I have heard work of trying to make a talking shell for the > blind. This bothers me. I like bas, other may like tcsh, ksh, or whatever. > Why can't a screen reader be written that is independent of the shell? There is, of course, Emacspeak, which does much more than just run shells. Emacspeak doesn't care which shell you run, and it speaks quite nicely. > Sorry if this is off-topic. Your questions are directly *on topic*. > Michael Brian. -- --------------- Brian L. Sellden - brian@henge.com, brians@usa.net User of Emacspeak 4.0, making Unix talk. http://www.henge.com/~brian