I would love to know if there's one mailing list that would allow me to reach
the widest audience. I don't know if I'm up to joining ten different lists.
For what it's worth, last night, Ron Whyte (aka Fudge) set up an IRC channel,
#MythSpeech, on irc.freenode.net. I'm there now and expect to be whenever I'm
online, so maybe that's a good place to direct people interested in this
subject?
Regards,
Helen
On 12/23/2012 03:15 AM, B. Henry wrote:
The problem, with these older releases is that the later orca releases only run
on unity, and I think really only 12.04 and to a point 11.10 work well enough
to be viable. The reason then later orca versions are needed are so that some
QT support is available.
I know nothing about the details of what QT programs work and which don't. GTK+
is pretty much what Orca worked with until about a year ago.
I'll post your original post as well as these replies to a couple other lists
and perhaps get up more interest.
I'm going to sleep right now, but I'll get off a few e-mails tomorrow.
The Vinux list is an especially good place as there are over 300 blind and low
vision subscribers, and while many are mixed OS-users, others like myself use
Linux as their primary or only OS.
Vinux is basically just Ubuntu with some special tweaks, some settings
preconfigured to be more speech and magnifier friendly and some extra scripts
and different software choices again to make things work as well out of the box
for blind and low vision folk.
Then there's a private list for some blind Linux students and another small
googlegroup/mailing list for folks interested in open-source and accessibility.
Hopefully between these lists and my twitter and facebook contacts I can find
some other interested people.
Thanks again, and I will be in touch.
On 12/22/2012 05:18 PM, faginbagin wrote:
Hi B.H. (an anyone else using an older distribution)
If there's interest, I can see what it would take to get mythspeech working on 10.04. As
it happens, my "production" MythTV environment consists of machines running
10.04 and 10.10 (for TV tuners that needed a newer kernel), with MythTV 0.23.
Regards,
Helen
P.S. Time to sign off until tomorrow.
On 12/22/2012 05:13 PM, B. Henry wrote:
does this software have a CLI, or is this only interacted with via the qt
interface?
I am a native English speaker, but speak more Spanish than English these days,
for some years now, so perhaps I could be of some assistance.
I don't currently have a version of Ubuntu that allows the use of the latest
Orca and thus QT however. This will be changing soon, but for now I'm using a
combination of 10.04 and 11.04 and xdesktop orca.
Sounds very interesting, and I'll for sure be giving this a try when possible.
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Regards,
B.H.
On 12/22/2012 03:45 PM, faginbagin wrote:
I'd like to announce Mythspeech, which makes it easier for the blind and/or
visually impaired to use MythTV, an open source DVR (digital video recorder).
Information about MythTV can be found here: http://www.mythtv.org/
It is supported by Ubuntu and there is a Ubuntu based distribution customized
specifically for MythTV, Mythbuntu: http://www.mythbuntu.org/
More details about Mythspeech can be found here:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythSpeech
Mythspeech is not a perfect solution, but I'm told by one user:
"Maria is VERY happy with her talking MythTV, and it has made her life so much
easier!"
How imperfect is the current implementation of mythspeech? One glaring example
is that it cannot help with the initial setup and configuration of MythTV. I
think you will need some vision or a friend or family member who can help with
this step.
I would very much like to talk to developers with experience in accessibility.
The current implementation of Mythspeech builds on MythTV's support for LCD
displays and uses speech-dispatcher's API, but I'm thinking a better long term
approach might be to implement Qt's accessibility classes. MythTV is a Qt
application, but it does not use Qt widgets.
I would also like to know if there are interested users whose first language is
not English. MythTV has been translated into many languages, and mythspeech
should be able to speak in those languages, if they are supported by
speech-dispatcher. But there are some things that could be improved if there is
interest.
Of course, I welcome any and all feedback, bug reports, etc.
Regards,
Helen
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