Bob,
I suggest listening to and contacting
Jonathan Nadeau <http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr0841.mp3>
He's a blind linux user and seems to be keen on helping others. Here is
one interview: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr0841.mp3
On 10/25/2011 06:35 AM, Jon Spriggs wrote:
Hi Bob,
I think you might have followed a little bit of a red herring to get
here. Festival is a text to speech engine, and from what your e-mail
has said, it sounds like you need a screen reader.
Linux isn't always the best at accessibility (especially with KDE),
but there are some distributions which, I've been lead to believe,
work very well with a screen reader.
If you can cope with the Gnome interface, the LTS (Long Term Support)
version of Ubuntu has accessibility "out of the box" - although the
more recent versions are struggling to cope with the massive overhall
to the User Interface (Unity).
For some details, it might be worth looking at this page:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Accessibility
For context, I have not had to use these tools for day-to-day working,
and I use festival as part of my music podcasting, but I listen to a
lot of podcasts, many of whom have discussed issues of Accessibility,
particularly around the loss or imparement of eyesight.
I hope I have helped you, at least a little bit!
All the best, and good luck,
Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs
On Oct 25, 2011 2:55 AM, "Bob Stia" <[email protected]
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Hello
I recently downloaded and installed Festival on my
openSUSE 11.3 distro. I can only make it work in
Konsole with text I copied there from the command line.
I need Festival as an aid for me in the near future.
I have macular degeneration and my eyesight is rapidly
getting worse. Hopefully I will be able to use it on most
apps suvh as web pages, documents, etc. Please tell me
that is possible.
I have searched google and everywhere else that I can
think of for some how-to or manual so that I can use it
effestively/
I hope that some kind soul on this list can point me in the
right direction.
Bob S
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