linux and accessibility applications

[Alex Snow]

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though there's supposed to be an opensource version of java coming out 
of sun and ibm or at least that's the rumor I heard.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 
at 11:26:17PM -0000, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> Flite is better than Festival IMHO.  The problem with FreeTTS is that you
> need Java, which Gentoo doesn't include .  Don't know if FreeTTS can be
> rrecompiled with gcj - I doubt it.
> S
> Aqib
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of nick G
> Sent: 15 March 2004 23:12
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: linux and accessibility applications
> 
> I'd like to see FreeTTS in place of festival.  Festival is bad, for, you!
> Thanks,
> Nick
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Deedra Waters" <dmwaters at gentoo.org>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 5:15 PM
> Subject: linux and accessibility applications
> 
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> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > I'm looking for some feedback, and basically what I want to know is this.
> > What accessibility applications are out there for linux besides
> > gnopernicus, speakup,  emacspeak, brltty and the speechd thing?
> > 
> > The other thing I should ask I think, is, what accessibility software
> > would people like to see in a distro? (meaning software that's already
> > written)
> > 
> > I'm project lead for the gentoo accessibility project
> > 'http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/accessibility', and what I'd like
> > to do is get a list together of packages we don't have for accessibility,
> > and work on getting those available for our users. Currently we have most
> > of the gnome-accessibility packages, speakup in some of the kernel
> > sources, brltty, (which is currently in testing) festival, and speechd.
> > 
> > Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Deedra
> > 
> > 
> > - -- 
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