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* Re: another idea for speech.
@  HRTC
   ` Travis Siegel
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 27+ messages in thread
From: HRTC @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: blinux-list

Hi, listers!
An wonderful altercation!
But I hope it will come to an end by Gym's mail.
One thing I am sure of is we should have access to all kind of OS and
with so much limited resources, we should allocate them very wisely.
I don't think that we have satisfactory solution for Win95 yet, but
Windows NT has already come very near.
So, I believe that what we need is an urgent beginning of developing a
screen reader for NT, not another screen reader for X-Windows.
It is very important for the blind to have a variety of choices for an
OS, but far more important to have  access to each OS.
 I hope that Synthavoice will open a new era by developing a new WinBridge
 for NT.

 Chungho Kim


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* Re: another idea for speech
@  Travis Siegel
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 27+ messages in thread
From: Travis Siegel @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: blinux-list

>I have suggested to the folks at Synthavoice that they might try their
>hand at a product for Linux and x free 86. what do you all think of the
>idea?

A very nice idea indeed.  Trouble is, (at least us artic users) Artic
cards require a sonixtts.com driver before speech programs other than
artic's own artic or business vision will work on them.  Unless artic
gets their hands out from where they're sitting on them, we won't have
linux access directly.  At the moment, using a pc as a terminal provides
the greatest flexibility for blind users.  (personal opinion)


-- 
http://softcon.com/~tsiegel/


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* Re: another idea for speech
@  michael malver
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 27+ messages in thread
From: michael malver @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: blinux-list

I am glad they are working on a x screen reader, but I'd also like to see
something that would work under linux, without x.  I want to be able to run
bash, or tcsh without running a whole  nother termina.  I like nn, elm, and
would probably switch to unix if those programs would talk on my machine.
For now, I must use a local provider.
At 07:28 PM 12/6/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Craig writes:
>> 
>> I have suggested to the folks at Synthavoice that they might try their
>> hand at a product for Linux and x free 86. what do you all think of the
>> idea?
>
>I would rather see Synthavoice put their efforts into a top-quality NT 
>screen reader.  There is a group of us who is working on one for X, and 
>when it is done (please don't ask when), it will be freely available.
>
>I would hate to see a commercial company devote any resources to a screen 
>reader for X, when instead they could be concentrating on NT -- the end 
>result is that there will be two top-quality screen readers, one for each 
>environment, and that will allow the maximum number of blind people to be 
>employed in the shortest amount of time, and that is really what should 
>be driving any development efforts.
>
>-- Jim Rebman <jrebman@netcom.com>
>
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* Re: another idea for speech
@  Lar Kaufman
   ` Jim Rebman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 27+ messages in thread
From: Lar Kaufman @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: blinux-list, blinux-list

I can't agree with the idea that Synthavoice should be working on an
NT screen reader.  IBM has already shown in OS/2 Warp 4 that it is
quite feasible and apropos for voice support to be an OS-supplied 
interface, and I'd rather see pressure for Microsoft to adopt IBM's 
solution to have standard hooks.   

An X solution is also laudable, because it cannot be justifiable to
lock a segment of users into a proprietary solution because of a disability.
(Let Microsoft support X?  Why not?)

-lar

  Lar Kaufman    lark@world.std.com     lark@conserve.org    lark@walden.com
   +   +   +   +   +   +   +   +   +   +   +   +   +   +   +   +   +   +   +
  _Running Linux_ 2nd. Ed. Aug. 1996, Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman, Authors
                                      O'Reilly & Associates, Publishers


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* another idea for speech
@  Craig Martin
   ` Kenneth Albanowski
                   ` (3 more replies)
  0 siblings, 4 replies; 27+ messages in thread
From: Craig Martin @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: blinux-list

hi, there, 
I have suggested to the folks at Synthavoice that they might try their
hand at a product for Linux and x free 86. what do you all think of the
idea?


craig martin
numbers@primenet.com
packet:
wa0wpj@wa0wpj.ampr.org


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