Hi Caroline, > I've seen a great deal of interest in Text to Speech. Students > with severe enough disabilities to qualify get Kurzweil, but it > costs $1000 for a one seat licence!
There's text-to-speech software for GNOME (so, generally compatible with Sugar) called Orca: http://live.gnome.org/Orca It'd be a great project to integrate this formally with Sugar. > I'm curious if anyone has played with Wine on Sugar and > how well it would work to let some kids still have access to > Kurzweil even when using Sugar? I think it would not work, because Wine will not have access to anything happening in Sugar. > Also does anyone know what they are using in Uruguay with > vision-impaired students? Not sure -- a few .uy deployment engineers are around on the -devel@ lists, so they can be asked directly. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[email protected]> One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
