Re: Creating an Operating System with speech included

  • From: "E.J. Zufelt" <everett@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:40:33 -0400

PulseAudio (formerly PolypAudio) is a cross-platform, networked sound server project. It is intended to be an improved drop-in replacement for the Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESD).


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PulseAudio


----- Original Message ----- From: "Nimer" <nimerjaber1@xxxxxxxxx>
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What exactly is pulse audio?

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E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Good morning,

Yes, Vibuntu is an offset of Ubuntu. For all of the benefits that it may have, it still uses PulseAudio.

HTH,
Everett


----- Original Message ----- From: "Nimer" <nimerjaber1@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 10:44 AM
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Vibuntu? Is this just an offset of ubuntu?

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Chris Hallsworth wrote:
Not really. Vibuntu, however, has worked around this problem, and, for example, it's possible to install Ubuntu with speech whilst in the live CD.

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Nimer" <nimerjaber1@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:58 AM
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Does Orca work with administration toold for the GUI any better?

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E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Good morning,

OpenSolaris 2008-11 is very accessible with Orca and has a reasonably easy to use accessible install. By default Orca uses espeak on OpenSolaris. In my opinion Orca is more responsive on OpenSolaris than on Ubuntu 8.04.

See:

Willy Walker's Weblog - He worked on the accessible install
http://blogs.sun.com/wwalker/

Accessible Installation Instructions
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/status/accessibility/AccessibleLiveCd/

OpenSolaris Download Site
http://genunix.org/

HTH,
Everett



----- Original Message ----- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 6:01 AM
Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech included


Sorry, but I think you don't know what you are talking about.

First, I didn't say that Jaws is a Microsoft program. I said only that the best accessibility is offered by Windows and Jaws and not by Orca and Linux, but not even the comparison between these 2 is important, but the fact that it is very hard to create another OS with another screen reader built in.

Second, I know that Orca works with Linux, but Sun doesn't pretend that they've created the most advanced Linux OS, but that they've created Solaris, the most advanced OS. However, Solaris is not accessible for the blind, or it is accessible but only by using emacspeak, which has a very ugly interface and offers a poor accessibility anyway, and I haven't tested Solaris so I don't really know if it really supports emacspeak or it is just a future plan for Sun.

By the way, have anyone tried Solaris?

Octavian

----- Original Message ----- From: "black ares" <matematicianu2003@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 11:39 AM
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don't forget that jaws is not a microsoft software and, taking software only from the two grand companies, sun is better than microsoft.
Because, with orca you can do more than with narator from windows.
So Sun has right assuming it as the best company offering an advanced os with speak.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: Creating an Operating System with speech included


Windows is an operating system with speech included. Do you want to create a
better OS than Windows and a better screen reader than Narrator?
I guess you want to create a better one, because otherwise... why bother?

In order to do that, you should create a company, employ a few thousands of
good programmers and after very many years you might do it.
Sun Microsystems has tens of thousands of programmers and they pretend that they have created the most advanced operating system in the world, and they have also made one of the most used screen readers for Linux, but the accessibility offered by their solutions is much lower than the one offered by Windows and screen readers like Jaws, and Sun work on their OS for very
many years, so... it could be very hard to do what you want.

Octavian

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jose Lomeli" <jose.lomeli93@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 10:05 AM
Subject: Creating an Operating System with speech included


Hello; Listers, I just thought.  What do I have to do to create a
operating system with speech. I just thought about this. Can this be
done? Please write back.
From Jose Lomeli.
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