More about DOS systems

[Samuel Thibault]

Tony Baechler, le Sat 01 Mar 2008 01:47:27 -0800, a écrit :
> Yes, but does it support speech and Braille?

For speech, it supports Alva, BrailleLite and CombiBraille. For braille,
it supports a very long list, which can be seen on the brltty web site:
http://mielke.cc/brltty/doc/README.txt

> I understood that speech support was preliminary and it didn't have
> all of the features you would expect from a screen reader using
> speech.

Speech is relatively basic, yes.

> I understood that it is primarily for Braille.

Yes.

> I assumed that was obvious because this is the Speakup list.

Ok :)

> Does it support software speech?

It doesn't have internal support for software speech, and so on DOS it
doesn't support speech (that would require sound drivers, etc.)

> What about the DEC-talk express?

It doesn't support it.

> The original comment was about adding software speech synth support to
> an open source screen reader.

Dave Mielke would sure be glad to add more hardware support to brltty.

Samuel