On 10/14/2024 9:11 AM, Mike Coulombe via Freedos-devel wrote:
Hi. I'm visually impaired and would like to use free dos. Are there
any developers willing to look in to creating a talking boot disk?
Free dos would be very useful to blind people world wide if it had
speech accessibility. I would think the free e-speak synthesizer could
be ported to dos and made to work with one of the free dos screen
readers out there. I'm not a developer, but would be willing to work
with someone on this and do beta testing. I still have my dos screen
readers. If software speech could be added to free dos there are at
least two dos screen readers I know of that have been released as
freeware. What would be ideal is a distro we could put on a flash
drive that would detect sound cards and come up talking like the Slint
Linux distro does. If any developers are willing to look into this it
would be greatly appreciated and useful to people world wide.
Honestly, this is probably outside of the possibility for FreeDOS. DOS
in general does not have a concept of drivers, and by itself, doesn't
use any sound, beside a rudimentary "beep".
To make this possible, this would require an almost impossible task of
detecting sound cards/chips, installing/load appropriate drivers,
installing a "speaking" application, all before DOS could actually do
what it is supposed to do.
As bad as I might feel for you and your impairment, I simply don't think
that is something feasible..
Ralf
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