RE: Help With Sounds

  • From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 22:45:01 -0400

Currently everything is just for windows all though our Braille plus is all 
linux.  I have a mac at work and so do three other coders and we are looking 
into to porting some of our software.  All of our early trade books for Braille 
software and a pretty cool elementary Braille Tactile training course which 
hooks to hard ware also works on the Mac so we are drifting into cross platform.

 

Ken

 

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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Storm Dragon
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 8:04 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Help With Sounds

 

Hi Ken,
Does APH make cross platform software or just for Windows?
Thanks
Storm


 
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On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 19:14 -0400, Ken Perry wrote: 

 
You see you don't even know APH we do not charge for software updates.
Shrug I know how you feel and I think you're a bit prejudiced because of
other companies.  
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sina Bahram
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 5:41 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Help With Sounds
 
Sure, and if you enjoy living in the ghetto blindness space, then that's
fine. I love it, frankly, 10 to 20X margins, only a few
tech conferences a year, the most you have is a few releases per financial
year and you can usually charge the user for some of
those, etc, etc ... It's great. I love that market. Exploiting blind people
is the way to go if you want some cash, my friend. It's
as easy as apple pie, but that doesn't make it better.
 
You have short-term advantages for ghetto blind products written
specifically for the blind. Very little learning curve, easier
navigation for a little while, etc, etc, and then you realize that this
product is written by an industry who doesn't have any
capitalistic pressure on it. People, have, to buy from them, so they can
continue releasing complete garbage, charging an arm and a
leg, and oh, I love this part, we should be grateful because it's a company
incurring such costs to develop in the blindness space.
 
And I swear, if you show me a company that has that level of cost, I'll show
you the most incompetent set of idiots ever in charge
of a product. I don't care if they are nice, or good people. That makes me
want to have a beer with them, but the fact that they are
such incompetent tech managers makes me want to throw said beer in their
face.
 
So here's an idea, take a tenth of those dollars, and make some real
applications used by real people in the real world accessible.
 
You mentioned Outlook. Show me a blindness application that works half as
well for the things Outlook can do.
 
You mentioned editors. For IDE's, I use eclipse, when I need something more
than wordpad, not a proprietary editor, and I actually
prefer it to anything I've used, including Boxer.
 
There's word processors ... Show me anything that works better than MS Word
for the kinds of things it supports, for the blind.
 
Same for presentation software: there's PowerPoint.
 
And so on
 
Take care,
Sina
 
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken Perry
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 5:28 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Help With Sounds
 
I like to argue this.  If  you actually get good software written for the
blind it's much better than software adapted for the
blind.  Unfortunately that means its more expensive but then look at gold
wave, dreamweaver, Adobie, and the list could go on I will
not even list Microsoft because we all know they are um well interesting
when it comes to pricing their software have you tried
buying Outlook?  Don't give me that use thunderbird crap I have to actually
get my appointments sometime this week.  Some times its
better just to buck up and pay for software that is easy to use so
 
 you don't have to spend time and money fighting with it to make it work the
way it should have when you got it.  Hell I am even
working on an extension for Safari to try to make that piece of shit work
better.
 
Ken
 
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sina Bahram
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 4:11 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Help With Sounds
 
Let me be less kind, haha. Anything written in the blindness market.
 
Other industries do actually know how to write software.
 
Take care,
Sina
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Hofstader
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 3:59 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Help With Sounds
 
When did Sina become a lousy communist?
On Sep 8, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Sina Bahram wrote:
 
> There is also Reaper, and some other programs as well.
> 
> $200 for anything other than an entire operating system is not only
ludicrous, but down right despicable.
> 
> I'd laugh, but I'm too busy being sick to my stomach at such an insane
price for anything.
> 
> Take care,
> Sina
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken Perry
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 12:27 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Help With Sounds
> 
> 
> 
> Sound recorder (SR) by APH is my tool of choice.  It is $200 but it is 
> the most accessible and coolest sound tool made for blind folks.  If 
> you
don't have a volunteer yet let me know and I can see what I can wack out.
> 
> 
> 
> Ken   
> 
> 
> 
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of QuentinC
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 11:04 AM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Help With Sounds
> 
> 
> 
> You could use programs such as audacity to make that. It's not very
difficult but take some time.
> 
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