Re: ORCA / Linux Compatibility
- From: Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:39:06 -0400
Vinix scripts do all that SpeakUp Modified do plus a whole lot more good stuff.
On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:31 PM, black ares wrote:
> for the moment there are out there modified distros for blinds.
> First and best of all I think, is vinux which is an ubuntu modified with a
> lot of patches for accessibility mainly for blinds.
> Second is speakup modified fedora project.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Stefik" <stefika@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Kimberly Ann Slattery"
> <kislatt@xxxxxxxx>; "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 12:29 AM
> Subject: ORCA / Linux Compatibility
>
>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I have a student that is going to be working soon on getting ORCA and
>> general linux speech compatibility into our Sodbeans tool, a self
>> voicing utility, audio debugger, and programming language in NetBeans.
>> I don't have very much experience doing text-to-speech on Linux, so
>> I'm hoping to probe the community and see what folks know about this
>> already.
>>
>> A few questions:
>>
>> 1. Should we be targeting ORCA compatibility or something else?
>> 2. Any particular distros that we really should support (e.g., ubuntu,
>> vinux)?
>> 3. Any good tutorials or existing code we can plug into to get started?
>>
>> Stefik
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