On 1999-09-08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
SU>Just curious... If you're a blind user, what is your
SU>favorite speech device? And why?
well, epr, i am behind on email so hope i am not too late to vote.
its a great question! talkers, like wines and food and i dare say anything
else are a matter of taste. I am a singer so like mine to sound more
human, while some i'm sure go for the battle star galactic type <grin>
my favorite talker, and i have been a user for more than a decade, is no
longer made. it was sold by TSI with the vert plus package and was an
internal card. Digital equipment came along and knocked many makers out of
the ball park, unfortunately. the vert speech was more flexible to me then
the dec kind.
SU>Also, how these "talkers" work? Scanning text mode
SU>video RAM, listening STDOUT, listening specific port,
SU>special/propetiary method, or perhaps using windoish
SU>device driver (if work under windows)?
SU>Where the specs could be obtained? Any URLs?
SU>Please forgive my ignorance (so many questions in
SU>one mail), but I'm not blind, and I would like to
SU>know how blind users could be supported well with
SU>a selectable-UI (User Interface) DOS internet suite.
good questions all, may I add my two cents?
talkers as far as i know come in two varieties, internal and external,
though they are starting to make softwear kinds as well. the internal ones
fit inside like a card while the external ones attach to a port like your
ceria port. however a talker is a bit silent without a screen reading
program of some sort <grin> here, too, it gets user specific or should be.
in most cases, the program allows you to configure what you do and do not
want to hear. and if the application you are using allows it, can be made
to read automatically if that program can write to the bios. then too,
program designers can create drivers that also allow for automatic reading o
f
information as it comes to the screen.
as for windows, i have always problems with windows apart form the screen
reading ones,, though those are ad enough. I use my computer more as a tool
then a toy, i know what i am doing and where i am going and do not need some
interface making it harder to get there. then too, anything that big cannot
be that efficent, just ask the government <g> On the other hand, in my
view, and it is my view, the basest problem with windows and speech is
getting the graphical information often required to make use of the
application translated into english or whatever the user's language might
be. too many icons, not enough ways to get those icons named. If I am
wrong someone please tell me!
as i use my computer so much, I don't have to wonder what i'm missing.
also, i know i missed some of the questions. As improvement can only come
through understanding, i'm more then willing to answer whatever you like.
btw, will someone remind me what the dos suite is?
hugs to you all
SU>--Epr
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make your own kind of music!
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