Spoken interface for Mac OS X

Sean McMahon smcmahon at usgs.gov
Mon Mar 22 12:11:18 EST 2004


You all might want to look at the emacspeak archives for ways to run emacspeak
under osx.
Sean
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1 at comcast.net>
To: <bob.dodd at acm.org>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: Spoken interface for Mac OS X


> There are quite a few potential beta candidates out there.  I am one of them
> who has a titanium g4 powerbook running osx but the only way I can currently
> use it is with os9 and outspoken for the mac.  There are lots of people for
> one reason or another who are currently not working in some places because
> there is no screen reading access to osx for the blind.  The last qquestion
> on the survey askes if you would preview spoken interface.  No mention is
> made anywhere of the status of the spoken interface except that it is in the
> early stages of development and will appear in the next upgrade of osx.
> Right now, it only works with some internal stuff for the mac but this is
> planned to be expandable with additions to the development kits for internal
> and external use.  Don't expect to see a beta any time soon.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Dodd" <Bob.Dodd at rocketmail.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 10:25 AM
> Subject: Re: Spoken interface for Mac OS X
>
>
> No it hasn;t. Currently they are looking for beta testers I believe:
> http://www.apple.com/accessibility/spokeninterface/questionnaire.html
>
> I'm not sure how many beta testers they think they will get, since I
> don't imagine there are many visually impaired users that currently
> have macs...
>
> /bob
>
> --- David Poehlman <poehlman1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > From what I have gathered, it has not yet been launched.
> >
>
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