New Linux PDA For Blind People

[Nick G]

Janina,
I think you're looking for "if wishes were hornets, we'd all get stung."
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From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: New Linux PDA For Blind People


> What is that old saying about should and would? Something like "If
> wishes were horses ..."
>
> Lorenzo Taylor writes:
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>> Actually, the few thousand more sales would, or at least should justify 
>> making a
>> mainstream device usable by disabled people.  We're talking about a few 
>> thousand
>> more sales over the few million sales they already make.  More is always 
>> better.
>> And since they have already done the bulk of the r&d to simply make their
>> product work, it isn't a big jump to make it work for people whose eyes 
>> don't
>> work, especially since most of that r&d has already been done, and not 
>> just by
>> assistive technology companies, but by companies who make products and 
>> services
>> we use every day, such as TellMe, (voice recognition) and IBM, (voice
>> recognition and voice synthesis).  It is actually an extremely simple 
>> matter to
>> figure out how to get info to a speech synthesizer, and translation of 
>> voice
>> commands to typed characters and menu commands has already been done on a 
>> number
>> of fronts.
>
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