Quoting Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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" ????
"Goth" as in someone affecting garishly inappropriate combinations of largely black and dark clothing, mixing studded leather, conventional clothing and suchlike. They take much of their inspiration from horror movies and heavy metal, and lend some back. It doesn't bother me - they try to be Works of Art. > > > 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. Pity. > > > 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. Thanks. I'll take a look at it. > > -- > CS > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
