linux and accessibility applications

[Tom and Esther Ward]

Hello, Deedra.
I really think you should include yasr 0.6.5, the eflite speech driver, and
flite.
Most VI computer users now days don't have hardware based speech, and by
providing yasr with flite preconfigured it will   give those users without
hardware speech an alternative.
In my case my Dectalk died a couple of months back and I have been totally
dependant on my sound card until I can get it replaced.
Hth.

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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,
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> 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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