i'm trying an experiment. I'm running naturallyspeaking on windows, and
I want to inject it's output into an ubuntu system and treat the
character stream as if it is coming from a keyboard. one implementation
idea is to connect from windows to linux via ssh or mosh. with with
focus on the
On 6/12/2011 2:40 AM, Isaac Porat wrote:
Hi
My comments were not a criticism of at-spi but rather the need were possible
to unify accessibilities standard across platforms for the simple reason that
if software vendors have to worry about one accessibility stack it is better
than two or
On 8/30/2010 2:11 AM, Maurice McCarthy wrote:
Thanks for that. It is a dud then.
Maurice
Not necessarily. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that the accessibility
interface belongs on the same machine as the application. It would be possible
to put a simple bridge on grub and have it
On 8/21/2010 6:59 AM, Maurice McCarthy wrote:
Hi All,
I read the survey last night and it makes interesting reading.
A few people mentioned Dragonsoft programs such as Naturally Speaking
and Dictate. Forgive me if I am wrong but earlier this year I was
looking at these sort of programs.
On 8/21/2010 6:59 AM, Maurice McCarthy wrote:
Hi All,
I read the survey last night and it makes interesting reading.
A few people mentioned Dragonsoft programs such as Naturally Speaking
and Dictate. Forgive me if I am wrong but earlier this year I was
looking at these sort of programs.
On 6/24/2010 6:40 AM, Penelope Stowe wrote
As it's time for us to think about our next meeting, I'd like to
propose meeting June 30 at 21h UTC. Does this work for those
interested?
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On 5/24/2010 5:52 AM, Bruno Girin wrote:
\
There are more than disabled people on standard committees than you
think. In practice, the problem is not with web and accessibility
standards themselves, they are with their implementation in browsers and
how well (or not) they are followed by web
On 5/24/2010 6:46 AM, Kenny Hitt wrote:
Hi.
Just to clarify something: my attitude isn't directed at any of the people
who have asked me
questions about my Orca crash. My attitude comes from the fact I can debug
Linux kernel code but can't debug a fucking gnome screen reader.
In my
On 5/23/2010 2:49 AM, Tim Cross wrote:
while I can appreciate the frustration you express in your posts, I have to
agree with Kenny on this one. Your points regarding history being repeated etc
mayb e valid. However, you made no reference to any of the points you later
expanded upon in your
On 5/23/2010 11:26 AM, Kenny Hitt wrote:
There isn't a kernel module in this case since they are using sane.
I regularly build and install kernel modules without needing to reboot.
Maybe these notes were for Windows? That is the only explanation I can
come up with to explain this.
I went
On 5/23/2010 12:40 PM, Kenny Hitt wrote:
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:16:12PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
On 5/23/2010 11:26 AM, Kenny Hitt wrote:
There isn't a kernel module in this case since they are using sane. I
regularly build and install kernel modules without needing to reboot
On 5/21/2010 11:04 AM, Nischal Rao wrote:
Hi,
I and some of my friends have created a speech assistant software for
linux called VEDICS(Voice Enabled Desktop Interaction and Control
System). Using this software the user can access any element found on
the user's screen through speech. The
I've had this conversation with a couple of OSS developers and the answers
always leave me very uncomfortable.
The problem is how does one live by OSS principals when essential tools are
vehemently closed and the barriers to replacements are decade scale and no one
is working on them?
The
On 5/15/2010 8:59 PM, Tim Cross wrote:
Hi Eric,
the points you raise and your observations are all true, but I don't think
there is a good answer. What it really boils down to is that OSS is largely
about solutions that have been developed by users scratching their own itch.
Unfortunately,
results show up in Linux.
Not that difficult to build if you have hands but potentially extremely useful.
Regards,
Phill.
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Eric S. Johansson e...@harvee.org
mailto:e...@harvee.org wrote:
On 5/3/2010 12:59 PM, Penelope Stowe wrote:
The meeting
On 1/1/2010 7:07 AM, Bill Cox wrote:
Any basically usable Linux system for the blind needs Orca and speakup
working together. Pulseaudio, SFAIK, only allows one instance to use
the sound card at a time. Pulseaudio also requires each user to have
his own copy. Speakup runs before any user
Halim Sahin wrote:
Hi Eric,
Can you please explain why we need a new audio system and not using
alsa directly???
because Alsa is broken. It does not work well with wine. It does not work
well
with USB microphones for speech recognition. It does not support two sound
devices at the same
Halim Sahin wrote:
I can listen to anything and use my usb logitech headset for voip
conferencing.
Maybe your problems are configuration mistakes?
could be but I've never found anyone that can tell me how to fix it. the last
time I tried, the usb device (iMic, buddy, and vxi b200)
Brian Cameron wrote:
This does seem like an interesting idea. To expand upon it, I think
GNOME also needs a solution that works more generally.
There has been talk of enhancing gnome-settings-daemon so that it is
possible for users to hit particular keybindings or other sorts of
gestures
Thomas Lloyd wrote:
Hi,
Not sure if you have tried Cygwin but that does allow you to open both a
full gnome desktop and individual applications within windows and in
theory should allow you to control the system remotely over ssh via
Dragon.
You can run the system full screen and you
Bill Cox wrote:
The thought of getting Naturally speaking working with Linux is very
exciting, and I may be able to put in some hours on the Linux side.
From what I've read, it's possible to get NS Professional working with
the built-in text editor, but you can't get text to focus on any Linux
Bill Cox wrote:
If Canonical cares about support for the visually impaired, then it may
be time to mount a significant effort to put out this fire. On every
blog I'm reading, the visually impaired are recommending that users
switch away from Ubuntu. I am currently running Orca and Ubuntu
What can be done to make accessibility work more accessible? :-)
well, it would really really help if you, or someone just like you could make
NaturallySpeaking completely reliable under wine. Then we could examine
usability issues around transferring the dictation results into Linux
Joseph Reagle wrote:
As an aside, while I wasn't comfortable with with Jaunty RT oddness, I don't
think NaturallySpeaking in a VirtualBox Machine requires RT, just
low-latency. So I actually tried Intrepid again and built a kernel [1] with
the following settings. I'm also using the new vbox
Tom Lloyd wrote:
Is there any millage in using the Microsoft speech recognition engine. I have
no experience of using it but I can create the bridge from wine to linux. I
havealready created the Text to speech element that now works in linux using
Orca and speech dispatcher. It works quite
Angelo Marra wrote:
Hi folks
How hobout bulding a dictation Sofware for ubuntu?
WE need it!
QUOTE from the net:
* TheMuso's blog http://www.themuso.com/blogs/TheMuso
Voce Dictation
Tom Lloyd wrote:
Hello All,
Just wanted to say Hi and to get myself known. I have been using Ubuntu for=
three or so years. I am a 26 year old developer from the UK trained in Emb=
edded / Realtime systems. As a side project I am intergrating SAPI into Ubu=
ntu to gives access to the MS
NaturallySpeaking 10 is working reasonably well under wine (if you use the
bleeding edge git code). I have some ideas on how to bridge the barrier between
linux and wine but I'd like to learn what facilities are native in the current
gnome accessibility toolkit. The last time I read the
the problem with the VM ware tools package is that it's missing some
very important components, specifically:
poweroff-vm-default
resume-vm-default
poweron-vm-default
suspend-vm-default
there may be something else missing for invoking the scripts but, I
haven't figured out what it is yet.
according to the documentation on the open-VM-tools website, the four
default files listed above should be placed into /etc/vmware-tools with
the execute bit turned on (555 seems to work). Initial, admittedly very
brief testing reset and suspend appear to work. What's still missing is
the VM
my deepest apologies for not responding sooner. Had significant
household crises. Yes, new driver does work, it looks really good.
Display is clean and clear now if I could only fix the power supply I
would be a happy camper. :-)
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Huygens wrote:
Thank you Eric for your work :-) that is a nice initiative.
Glad to be of help. I'm also making trouble in the anti-spam (reputation-based)
arena and small-scale Web frameworks (learn hours, not days or weeks), and
speech recognition-based accessibility.
However, there is a
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Huygens wrote:
Once you have a draft, you could propose it for review. :-) Perhaps,
people could bring ideas too and enhance it. If you look at other
specification, some do not even propose software ones,
in bug 103708 Jonathan Watmough posted a small image showing where one
could put a user's button to activate what users are associated with
what shares. what Jonathan is concerned with is an important problem,
it's just not this problem. I propose adding two more fields to the
basic dialog box
I've been thinking about this problem a bit more since I filed the
initial bugs and I think password synchronization is only part of the
problem.
The initial thought was for a naïve user. A naïve user wants to export
a share so he/she can use it from another machine. They might even give
their
id:
res: 1400x1050
freq:
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is this what you are looking for?
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Public bug reported:
this has been a long term problem with X11. I think it dates back to
6.06.
laptop: compaq presario 1700t
lspci reports video as:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY
install sets up video as 1024x768 which works ok but is very
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Chris Hayes wrote:
Thanks or the feedback Eric. Is it really this hopeless?
remember what I said about negative filtering. :-)
If I had the time I would finish writing up my bit on the mediator and
how it would work. I believe it's eminently practical and even a good
idea. given enough
voice models. What you're proposing has even less functionality
than a broken natural text.
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
Eric S. Johansson wrote:
this is one half of the solution needed. Not only do you need to
propagate text to Linux but you need to provide enough context back to
windows so
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
Eric S. Johansson wrote:
In short: Create a copy-left (GPL) tool to transfer text from Naturally
Speaking on Windows to Linux.
this is one half of the solution needed. Not only do you need to
propagate text to Linux but you need to provide enough context back
http://foss.eepatents.com/WinDictator/wiki/AlphaRelease
Ed Suominen created this package which injects text spoken to a Windows
speech recognition application and injects it into Linux. He used a
modified xnee package to somehow improve the reliability of text
injection. I have two queries
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
That looks very interesting. I tried to do something similar last year
using a VNC connection instead, with mixed results. This looks much more
elegant. I'll be very interested to try it. It seems building and
installing is a major issue with it at the moment
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