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[lobap]

Hello all:
I'm looking for Polish Linux users on either of those lists. I'm 
interested in Polish speech output being used under this operating system. 
I suspect that Braille access was already developed but am not sure about 
speech one.

Thanks, Pawel. 

Re: looking for...

[Jacek Zadrozny]

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Cc: <blinux-newbie@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 8:22 PM
Subject: looking for...


> Hello all:
> I'm looking for Polish Linux users on either of those lists. I'm
> interested in Polish speech output being used under this operating system.
> I suspect that Braille access was already developed but am not sure about
> speech one.
>
> Thanks, Pawel.
>
See this: http://kdn.prv.pl/linux/
No i jest polska lista blinuxowa, ale dopiero raczkuje.
Regards
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Re: looking for...

[Bill Gaughan]

Dave,

The grade 2 translator for ScreenPower Braille (which employs a version of
Duxbury) translates the whole screen at once. What I think it does is
translates the information in the VersaBraille's buffer. I think what you
want to do is translate everything in the brltty buffer at once, so, when
the reader hits the advance buttons, the next display would be in grade
two until the feature was turned off. you could use a braille keypad
hot-key to toggle this, of course. With view2.exe and spb.exe in DOS, the
feature stays on until you toggle it off with a braille hot-key. So, for
example, I can work in WordPerfect 6.0, preparing my document and reading
all the menu and command features of the software all in grade two braille
until I decide to turn it off.

Grade two braille in brltty would be great for web-braille readers,
instant grade two right on the net, or for reading news on world net daily
or American Freedom News.



-- 
Bill Gaughan
wgaughan@snet.net


On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Jacek Zadrozny wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <lobap@adaptech.net>
> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> Cc: <blinux-newbie@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 8:22 PM
> Subject: looking for...
>
>
> > Hello all:
> > I'm looking for Polish Linux users on either of those lists. I'm
> > interested in Polish speech output being used under this operating system.
> > I suspect that Braille access was already developed but am not sure about
> > speech one.
> >
> > Thanks, Pawel.
> >
> See this: http://kdn.prv.pl/linux/
> No i jest polska lista blinuxowa, ale dopiero raczkuje.
> Regards
> Jacek>
> >
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Re: looking for...

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Bill Gaughan on November 26, 2001, at 10:05]

>The grade 2 translator for ScreenPower Braille (which employs a version of
>Duxbury) translates the whole screen at once. What I think it does is
>translates the information in the VersaBraille's buffer. I think what you
>want to do is translate everything in the brltty buffer at once, so, when
>the reader hits the advance buttons, the next display would be in grade
>two until the feature was turned off.

What about formatting? Does it fill each line by picking up the beginning of
the next line to fill out the end of the previous, now shorter, previous line,
or does it leave each line as an atomic element? What about left margin
indentation?

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Re: Grade 2 and Brltty (was looking for...

[John J. Boyer]

Dave,
My experience is with Jaws. As best I can make out, it translates until
either there is enough to fill the display or the end of the line is
reached. The display never contains parts of two lines, though this may have
been changed in the latest version. Translating the whole screen at once is
not a good idea, because the screen may change while you are reading it.
Extra blanks are usually omitted to get as much as possible on the display.
John

Computers to Help People, Inc.
http://www.chpi.org
825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Mielke" <dave@mielke.cc>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:01
Subject: Re: looking for...


> [quoted lines by Bill Gaughan on November 26, 2001, at 10:05]
>
> >The grade 2 translator for ScreenPower Braille (which employs a version
of
> >Duxbury) translates the whole screen at once. What I think it does is
> >translates the information in the VersaBraille's buffer. I think what you
> >want to do is translate everything in the brltty buffer at once, so, when
> >the reader hits the advance buttons, the next display would be in grade
> >two until the feature was turned off.
>
> What about formatting? Does it fill each line by picking up the beginning
of
> the next line to fill out the end of the previous, now shorter, previous
line,
> or does it leave each line as an atomic element? What about left margin
> indentation?
>
> --
> Dave Mielke           | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is
the
> Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario   | Word of God. Please contact me
> EMail: dave@mielke.cc | Canada  K2A 1H7   | if you're concerned about
Hell.
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Re: Grade 2 for Brltty (was looking for...

[John J. Boyer]

Bill,
I agree with most of these ideas. However, I think that only enough to fill
the display should be trranslated at one time. I also think that a
translation module should be built into brltty and that the needs of various
languages should be taken care of with translation tables, which could be
selected as text tables are now. The Grade 2 translation tables would be in
a form that could be edited by the user, although translation tables for
each language owould be provided as part of the package.
I have a Grade 2 translation routine written in C which could be adapted, or
some code could be taken from nfbtrans. It would depend on which algorithm
is faster.
John

Computers to Help People, Inc.
http://www.chpi.org
825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Gaughan" <wgaughan@snet.net>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:46
Subject: Re: looking for...


>
>
> --
> Bill Gaughan
> wgaughan@snet.net
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Dave Mielke wrote:
>
> > [quoted lines by Bill Gaughan on November 26, 2001, at 10:05]
> >
> > >The grade 2 translator for ScreenPower Braille (which employs a version
of
> > >Duxbury) translates the whole screen at once. What I think it does is
> > >translates the information in the VersaBraille's buffer. I think what
you
> > >want to do is translate everything in the brltty buffer at once, so,
when
> > >the reader hits the advance buttons, the next display would be in grade
> > >two until the feature was turned off.
> >
> > What about formatting? Does it fill each line by picking up the
beginning of
> > the next line to fill out the end of the previous, now shorter, previous
line,
> > or does it leave each line as an atomic element? What about left margin
> > indentation?
> >
> It leaves the rest of the lines blank, but, since most lines would be over
> 40 characters anyway, (the standard braille line length on paper), you
> wouldn't have to reformat the buffer by starting a new print line on the
> same braille line of the previous print line just because there was room
> left on the new braille line. That would get too messy and I think, it
> would be too hard to program. The only reformatting you would want to do,
> and this is not a requirement really, might be to use two spaces instead
> of five spaces for a new paragraph. And you could delete blank lines from
> the display buffer when translating. Maybe brltty could have two buffers,
> a computer braille buffer and a grade two buffer. Also, I think you would
> want this feature to be a plug-in compatible option like the synthesizer
> drivers or make it library code. Maybe you could borrow code from nfbtrans
> package or turbo-braille code that was ported to linux.
>
> just some thoughts. I am not a C++ programmer. I was a COBOL programmer
> until three years ago, though.
>  >
>
>
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Re: looking for...

[Bill Gaughan]

-- 
Bill Gaughan
wgaughan@snet.net


On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Bill Gaughan on November 26, 2001, at 10:05]
>
> >The grade 2 translator for ScreenPower Braille (which employs a version of
> >Duxbury) translates the whole screen at once. What I think it does is
> >translates the information in the VersaBraille's buffer. I think what you
> >want to do is translate everything in the brltty buffer at once, so, when
> >the reader hits the advance buttons, the next display would be in grade
> >two until the feature was turned off.
>
> What about formatting? Does it fill each line by picking up the beginning of
> the next line to fill out the end of the previous, now shorter, previous line,
> or does it leave each line as an atomic element? What about left margin
> indentation?
>
It leaves the rest of the lines blank, but, since most lines would be over
40 characters anyway, (the standard braille line length on paper), you
wouldn't have to reformat the buffer by starting a new print line on the
same braille line of the previous print line just because there was room
left on the new braille line. That would get too messy and I think, it
would be too hard to program. The only reformatting you would want to do,
and this is not a requirement really, might be to use two spaces instead
of five spaces for a new paragraph. And you could delete blank lines from
the display buffer when translating. Maybe brltty could have two buffers,
a computer braille buffer and a grade two buffer. Also, I think you would
want this feature to be a plug-in compatible option like the synthesizer
drivers or make it library code. Maybe you could borrow code from nfbtrans
package or turbo-braille code that was ported to linux.

just some thoughts. I am not a C++ programmer. I was a COBOL programmer
until three years ago, though.
 >

Re: Grade 2 for Brltty (was looking for...

[Bill Gaughan]

John,

The problem of translating only enough text to fill the display at one
time is this. You would be unable to continuously read grade two text
without having to always toggle back to computer braille, advance the
display, then toggle back to grade two, then toggle back to computer
braille, then advance the display then toggle back to grade two braille,
etc. This would be really annoying and would, in my opinion render grade
two braille in brltty useless. doing all that toggle switching every time
you advanced the display would be too time consuming and useless. Unless,
of course, I am misunderstanding you. When you say the display, do you
really mean the brltty screen buffer? If you do, then I agree. You would
really need to translate whatever goes into the brltty screen buffer as
text is filled into it or take snapshots of it every so often or whenever
a key is presses on the keyboard or whenever a braille keypad key is
presses. I am not sure. I am not a programmer, and do not know how
difficult it would be. But, if TeleSensory did it using Duxbury's
view2.exe program with spb.exe for the PowerBraille, then I know it is
doable. It's just a suggestion, because, one of the things we all know is
wrong with computer braille is that when reading English text for long
periods of time on the net, like a book or magazine or long web page of
text, speech is sometimes faster than braille, especially one-to-one
braille. Grade two has a more natural feel to most blind people who read
braille.

-- 
Bill Gaughan
wgaughan@snet.net


On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Bill,
> I agree with most of these ideas. However, I think that only enough to fill
> the display should be trranslated at one time. I also think that a
> translation module should be built into brltty and that the needs of various
> languages should be taken care of with translation tables, which could be
> selected as text tables are now. The Grade 2 translation tables would be in
> a form that could be edited by the user, although translation tables for
> each language owould be provided as part of the package.
> I have a Grade 2 translation routine written in C which could be adapted, or
> some code could be taken from nfbtrans. It would depend on which algorithm
> is faster.
> John
>
> Computers to Help People, Inc.
> http://www.chpi.org
> 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Gaughan" <wgaughan@snet.net>
> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:46
> Subject: Re: looking for...
>
>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bill Gaughan
> > wgaughan@snet.net
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Dave Mielke wrote:
> >
> > > [quoted lines by Bill Gaughan on November 26, 2001, at 10:05]
> > >
> > > >The grade 2 translator for ScreenPower Braille (which employs a version
> of
> > > >Duxbury) translates the whole screen at once. What I think it does is
> > > >translates the information in the VersaBraille's buffer. I think what
> you
> > > >want to do is translate everything in the brltty buffer at once, so,
> when
> > > >the reader hits the advance buttons, the next display would be in grade
> > > >two until the feature was turned off.
> > >
> > > What about formatting? Does it fill each line by picking up the
> beginning of
> > > the next line to fill out the end of the previous, now shorter, previous
> line,
> > > or does it leave each line as an atomic element? What about left margin
> > > indentation?
> > >
> > It leaves the rest of the lines blank, but, since most lines would be over
> > 40 characters anyway, (the standard braille line length on paper), you
> > wouldn't have to reformat the buffer by starting a new print line on the
> > same braille line of the previous print line just because there was room
> > left on the new braille line. That would get too messy and I think, it
> > would be too hard to program. The only reformatting you would want to do,
> > and this is not a requirement really, might be to use two spaces instead
> > of five spaces for a new paragraph. And you could delete blank lines from
> > the display buffer when translating. Maybe brltty could have two buffers,
> > a computer braille buffer and a grade two buffer. Also, I think you would
> > want this feature to be a plug-in compatible option like the synthesizer
> > drivers or make it library code. Maybe you could borrow code from nfbtrans
> > package or turbo-braille code that was ported to linux.
> >
> > just some thoughts. I am not a C++ programmer. I was a COBOL programmer
> > until three years ago, though.
> >  >
> >
> >
> >
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Re: Grade 2 for Brltty (was looking for...

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Bill Gaughan on November 26, 2001, at 13:08]

>The problem of translating only enough text to fill the display at one
>time is this. You would be unable to continuously read grade two text
>without having to always toggle back to computer braille, advance the
>display, then toggle back to grade two, then toggle back to computer
>braille, then advance the display then toggle back to grade two braille,
>etc. This would be really annoying and would, in my opinion render grade
>two braille in brltty useless.

No, it wouldn't be that complicated at all. BRLTTY would simply translate as
necessary, i.e. each time the braille window is refreshed or moved. We'd just
need to ensure that the translation routine is fast enough so as to be as close
to unnoticeable as possible.

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Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario   | Word of God. Please contact me
EMail: dave@mielke.cc | Canada  K2A 1H7   | if you're concerned about Hell.

Re: Grade 2 for Brltty (was looking for...

[John J. Boyer]

Bill,
Whether or not Grade 2 translation is to be used would be tetermined by a
variable within brltty. When this variable indicates Grade 2, then pressing
the advance bar would cause the next segment of the line to be translated
and displayed. It wouldn't be necessary to toggle back and forth each time
you pressed the advance bar.
Certainly translating the whole screen at once is doable, but as Dave
pointed out, it could be a lot of unnecessary work, since the screen might
change before we got to read it. The way TSI implemented their Grade 2 is
not necessarily the best way to do it.
Hope this helps.
John

Computers to Help People, Inc.
http://www.chpi.org
825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Gaughan" <wgaughan@snet.net>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 13:08
Subject: Re: Grade 2 for Brltty (was looking for...


> John,
>
> The problem of translating only enough text to fill the display at one
> time is this. You would be unable to continuously read grade two text
> without having to always toggle back to computer braille, advance the
> display, then toggle back to grade two, then toggle back to computer
> braille, then advance the display then toggle back to grade two braille,
> etc. This would be really annoying and would, in my opinion render grade
> two braille in brltty useless. doing all that toggle switching every time
> you advanced the display would be too time consuming and useless. Unless,
> of course, I am misunderstanding you. When you say the display, do you
> really mean the brltty screen buffer? If you do, then I agree. You would
> really need to translate whatever goes into the brltty screen buffer as
> text is filled into it or take snapshots of it every so often or whenever
> a key is presses on the keyboard or whenever a braille keypad key is
> presses. I am not sure. I am not a programmer, and do not know how
> difficult it would be. But, if TeleSensory did it using Duxbury's
> view2.exe program with spb.exe for the PowerBraille, then I know it is
> doable. It's just a suggestion, because, one of the things we all know is
> wrong with computer braille is that when reading English text for long
> periods of time on the net, like a book or magazine or long web page of
> text, speech is sometimes faster than braille, especially one-to-one
> braille. Grade two has a more natural feel to most blind people who read
> braille.
>
> --
> Bill Gaughan
> wgaughan@snet.net
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, John J. Boyer wrote:
>
> > Bill,
> > I agree with most of these ideas. However, I think that only enough to
fill
> > the display should be trranslated at one time. I also think that a
> > translation module should be built into brltty and that the needs of
various
> > languages should be taken care of with translation tables, which could
be
> > selected as text tables are now. The Grade 2 translation tables would be
in
> > a form that could be edited by the user, although translation tables for
> > each language owould be provided as part of the package.
> > I have a Grade 2 translation routine written in C which could be
adapted, or
> > some code could be taken from nfbtrans. It would depend on which
algorithm
> > is faster.
> > John
> >
> > Computers to Help People, Inc.
> > http://www.chpi.org
> > 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bill Gaughan" <wgaughan@snet.net>
> > To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 11:46
> > Subject: Re: looking for...
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Bill Gaughan
> > > wgaughan@snet.net
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Dave Mielke wrote:
> > >
> > > > [quoted lines by Bill Gaughan on November 26, 2001, at 10:05]
> > > >
> > > > >The grade 2 translator for ScreenPower Braille (which employs a
version
> > of
> > > > >Duxbury) translates the whole screen at once. What I think it does
is
> > > > >translates the information in the VersaBraille's buffer. I think
what
> > you
> > > > >want to do is translate everything in the brltty buffer at once,
so,
> > when
> > > > >the reader hits the advance buttons, the next display would be in
grade
> > > > >two until the feature was turned off.
> > > >
> > > > What about formatting? Does it fill each line by picking up the
> > beginning of
> > > > the next line to fill out the end of the previous, now shorter,
previous
> > line,
> > > > or does it leave each line as an atomic element? What about left
margin
> > > > indentation?
> > > >
> > > It leaves the rest of the lines blank, but, since most lines would be
over
> > > 40 characters anyway, (the standard braille line length on paper), you
> > > wouldn't have to reformat the buffer by starting a new print line on
the
> > > same braille line of the previous print line just because there was
room
> > > left on the new braille line. That would get too messy and I think, it
> > > would be too hard to program. The only reformatting you would want to
do,
> > > and this is not a requirement really, might be to use two spaces
instead
> > > of five spaces for a new paragraph. And you could delete blank lines
from
> > > the display buffer when translating. Maybe brltty could have two
buffers,
> > > a computer braille buffer and a grade two buffer. Also, I think you
would
> > > want this feature to be a plug-in compatible option like the
synthesizer
> > > drivers or make it library code. Maybe you could borrow code from
nfbtrans
> > > package or turbo-braille code that was ported to linux.
> > >
> > > just some thoughts. I am not a C++ programmer. I was a COBOL
programmer
> > > until three years ago, though.
> > >  >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Blinux-list mailing list
> > > Blinux-list@redhat.com
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> > >
> >
> >
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