Hi
I've been recently confronted to these questions for the tuxdroid
project (which i intend to run on a NAS/Home router).
About text-to-speech, eSpeak seems really interesting for embedded
devices, plus it's more or less the only 100% free sotfware of this
category (others, like festival / flit
I forgot mentioning pocketsphinx (voice recognition), which has an
openembedded port already
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Don't forget that phones have vibrators. They could be used in cunning
ways with a relatively simple UI to provide feedback and thus
usability of touchscreens for even completely blind people.
On 3/27/07, Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 10:23:08 Bartlomiej Zda
Le mercredi 28 mars 2007 à 10:35 +1200, Robin Paulson a écrit :
> as coincidence would have it BBC Radio 4 had a piece today about
> mobile phones for the blind, and the consesus was that a talking phone
> would drive a partially sighted user mad within a few minutes.
> On 3/28/07, Gilles Casse <[
as coincidence would have it BBC Radio 4 had a piece today about
mobile phones for the blind, and the consesus was that a talking phone
would drive a partially sighted user mad within a few minutes.
to listen to it all (free):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio4/intouch.ram
should
Hello,
I will be also glad to focus on such a project.
As a note, a talking mobile, offering eyes-free applications can
probably interest visually impaired or sighted persons.
Today, the Linux desktop offers several alternatives for speech enabling
applications. For example:
* Speakup, Yasr, E
I work at the Kansas School for the Blind. Portable computing devices
for the visually impaired are extremely expensive, so seeing an
affordable OpenMoko device that is blind-friendly would be great.
Personally, I am interested in OpenMoko because I think using a phone
for remote administration of
There are a lot of people who can't read the tiny fonts on their phone
screen. I'm particularly interested in making a UI variant that is
optimized for people with failing eyesight, but not completely blind.
I have a friend with macular degeneration who wants me to make a phone
she can use, and ma
Quoting Bartlomiej Zdanowski AutoGuard Ltd. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[snip]
> Right I forgot about tactile display but plastic keys should be great. I
> think it should work because all PDA point-sticks work great. Touch-keys
> don't have to be clear... because blind person don't care about it,
> re
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 10:23:08 Bartlomiej Zdanowski AutoGuard Ltd. wrote:
> There's so much to do for blind person and we can do it together so
> think guys and please provide some solutions and thoughts.
I would imagine that a touchscreen only phone is quite hard to use for blind
people as op
Arthur Marsh napisał(a):
A large, high contrast display would help many vision impaired people,
and a well-thought out spoken menu system with speech synthesis would
help many low vision and completely blind people. The FIC 1973 does
have the drawback of there being no tactile feedback for inpu
Bartlomiej Zdanowski AutoGuard Ltd. wrote, On 27/03/07 17:53:
Hi.
I thought about voice synthesizer software to build in OpenMoko for
blind person. I know some blind people and currently they can only use
Nokia with Symbian and proper software. Does anyone have any experience
with voice synthe
Hi.
I thought about voice synthesizer software to build in OpenMoko for
blind person. I know some blind people and currently they can only use
Nokia with Symbian and proper software. Does anyone have any experience
with voice synthesizer soft and can provide some info whether it can be
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