[duxuser] Re: work-around for back translation
- From: "Terri Pannett" <pann1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 21:17:28 -0800
Dear Peter,
I see your point.
There are people who sell or give away older braille displays and those who
cannot afford a new one could find a used one. Lists such as Blindad would
help people locate a used display.
I know there are people in New Zealand and Australia who own BrailleNotes
and they can be used as braille displays with WindowEyes and JAWS. These
notetakers have forward and back translation so people could read braille
easily. Files can be transferred from the PC to the BN and read with the BN
itself.
If a person can't afford a BrailleNote, the VoiceNote is the next best thing
to use for "reading" grade 2 files with speech.
Incidentally, PDI has implemented Duxbury for their translator so
translation with the latest software is much improved.
Terri Pannett, Amateur Radio call sign KF^CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX,
California
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 4:47 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: work-around for back translation
: Hello Terry and listers,
:
: try telling that to the blind ladies who live in a small town in
: Australia who are on fixed incomes, and live in a country where agency
: perchesses of adaptive technology is next to none. Now add in the cost of
a
: Braille display which for blind people in many countries is twice or
triple
: what we here in the U.S. pay for them. The number of blind people in many
: countries outside of North America and Europe have extremely limited
access
: to these devices. We know several blind folks in a number of countries
who
: are in the very situation I described above. For them having a program
that
: would back translate Braille documents so they can be read with speech or
: large print is a strong viable alternative. However, I'm with you in that
: if you have access to a Braille display by all means use it!
:
: Peter Donahue
:
:
: ----- Original Message -----
: From: "Terri Pannett" <pann1@xxxxxxxxx>
: To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 2:20 PM
: Subject: [duxuser] Re: work-around for back translation
:
:
: Why go to all this work? Simply use a braille display! I read grade 2
: braille all the time!
:
: If the back translation for a line is turned on, WindowEyes will read it
: with speech!
:
: Frankly, I have this feature turned off and I simply read .dxb documents
: with my braille display.
:
: Terri Pannett, Amateur Radio call sign KF^CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX,
: California
: ----- Original Message -----
: From: "Catherine Thomas" <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
: To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:42 AM
: Subject: [duxuser] work-around for back translation
:
:
: : is there a possibility of writing scripts or setfiles (or whatever they
: : are called) for the major screen readers that would apply to grade two
: : files only? If there is, maybe a file could be writen for speech users
: : that would teach the speech to say dot 5 for example whenever it
: : encountered the quotation mark on a grade two screen. If the file
: : encountered a colon : it might say wh
: : With a little work, the sentence Where have all the flowers gone? could
be
: : translated from a grade two screen with the following sords in speech:
: : dot six dot five wh space h (or have) space a l l space the space f l ow
: : er s space g dot five o question
: :
: : Those who know how to play with jaws and windoweyes and any other that
: : applies would know more about how to make this work for grade two files
: : only.
: : Catherine
: :
: :
: :
:
: --------------------------------------------------------------------------
: ----
: : -Catherine Thomas
: : braille@xxxxxxxxx /
: :
:
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