On Tuesday 18 April 2006 22:00, Wesley Parish wrote: > I was in the St Albans Community Centre today when I was approached for > assistance by a blind "Goth". "Goth" ????
> We talked about computers and blind assistance etc, and I mentioned > SuSE's Blinux, or Linux for the Blind, and that one of Blinux's > principle programmers was himself blind. The blind man was suitably > impressed. I was wondering, though, is it a standard part of SuSE? It would appear not now. > Or do you need to download additional rpms? Novell seem to have expunged blinux from their site. Here are a few links you might find useful:- http://leb.net/blinux/ http://wwwcs.uni-paderborn.de/cs/heiss/blinux/index-en.html http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/ http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ Together these two make a excellent text to speech system. KDE have created http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/ which is a very good frontend to festival and mbrola. Provided you have sufficient sight to pick out the paragraphs it reads very understandably. For example, it would be fine for a severe dyslexic. Konqueror, kate and kpdf have this built-in, but not kmail or kword ( so far ). If you want to do something _really_ useful for mankind you might consider rolling all this into a liveCD. -- CS
