[ktvt] Fw: Top Tech tidbits for Thursday, August 17, 2006

"Vy Pham" <missyguide@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:37:39 -0400

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August 17, 2006

Top Tech tidbits for Thursday, August 17, 2006
1) Here is a web site containing games, many free, and some other programs
for the Pac Mate, the older notetakers and some for Windows and Linux:
www.braillesoft.net
2) the Plextalk PTR2 is an expensive digital recorder with many unique
features for the blind. Brian Hartgen has written a review of it. From his
Portable Player Portable site, choose the link for Daisy Players and
Recorders link to read it: http://www.hartgen.org/portable.html
3) Pro Tools is the leading program used by recording studio engineers,
musicians and producers. Its manufacturer has not chosen to implement the
accessibility provisions that Apple has built into the latest editions of
the Mac. You can sign a petition to urge them to do so.
http://www.protoolspetition.org/
4) Here is a handy site listing over 70 stations owned by CBS that now
stream their programming online: http://radiomat.com/
5) Gw Micro has published a new article to its KnowlegeBase: Small-Talk
Ultra Processor Throttling
http://gwmicro.com/Support/Knowledge_Base/?kbnumber=GWKB1048
6) Version 10.6 of the braille translation program DBT is available,
featuring enhanced support for importing Nemeth documents, new and improved
foreign language translation capabilities, and improved data entry both for
entry in DBT itself and for typing in Word.
http://www.duxburysystems.com/dbtwhst.asp
7) Here's something for JAWS scripters: Tutorial: Extending JAWS using
Python http://www.cs.unc.edu/~parente/tech/tr06.shtml
8) One mailing list participant recommends the Data Doctors weekly free
newsletter http://www.datadoctors.com/
9) Another source of information is the Rvers Computer Help newsletter
http://www.rverscomputerhelp.com/ These folks have written a lot of help
articles over the years, so they suggest looking at their collection of
articles http://www.rverscomputerhelp.com/articles.html and their newsletter
archive http://www.rverscomputerhelp.com/archives.html
10) Coming up shortly, at 03;00 Friday 18 August, the Computer America radio
program will feature an interview with the folks who make the Sepstral
software speech engines, with demonstrations of the latest in available
software speech. You can listen to the hour-long program by pasting this
Url into the ctrl-u dialog in Windows Media Player, or presumably into the
ctrl-l dialog in winamp: mms://64.92.199.77/BusinessTalkRadio-IN
11) Speaking of software speech, there's an interesting web site for a
program, presently available free, called Model Talker that claims to let
you use your own voice. Nobody has reported how well it really works:
http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/ModelTalker.html
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