hi
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Gary Kline <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 07:03:52AM +0800, Allan E. Registos wrote: > > Hi. > > > hi! > > according to your email and TZ, you are from somewhere in the > Phils, if I'm not mistaken. my wife was born there. [ just > intro. chatter. ] > > about ten years ago when I was at a local hospital here in Seattle, > the speech therapist showed me a Windoze box with a touch keyboard, > batteries, and speaker. I only have one working hand and could > barely heft the thing. it was difficult to use even tho I have > been using a typewriter or computer keyboard since my youth. my > thoughts then were that with a little hacking, I could buy a > smallish laptop and develop a graphic tool for the speech- > disabled {or mute}. the affected person would listen to his > friend(s) who were talking, and reply by having the computer be his > voice. > > I was already laid-off from a work injury and going to school in > a completely different field, so I never did anything except > outline my plans and continue with my schooling. ---The nutshell > of the story is that given 6+ month hacking in C and teaching > myself gtk ---AND having lots of help with the gtk suite, I > recently completed my project. > > VBC {Voice-by-Computer} requires espeak, gtk, and vim/gvim. But > it does essentially what I thought of those years ago--2003 or > '04 or '05--whatever it was. > > I talked to some hacker at Galluadet University who was > volunteering his time of the "one child per computer" project; > I also talked to another person or two. This was around '07 or > '08; there was definite interest in my project. I promised to > get back in touch when/if I ever finished the project. > > It's done. I dont know what version--possibly 0.20 to 0.35. > It works. VBC runs on any Unix/linux/android--[i think android] > tablet. I have run this domain, thought.org, for over 25 years > and gone thru dozens of used and homebrew hardware; I have > suffered many crashes; recent ones cost me former email backups. > So I have lost my record of who I was emailing at laptop.org. > > Need help. > > thanks much! > > gary kline > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Gary Kline" <[email protected]> > > To: "Accessibility Laptop List" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 6:58:30 AM > > Subject: [laptop-accessibility] just a test... > > > > > > just a test. is anyone at the other end of this list? I have a > > major CopyLeft program to announce. > > -- > > Gary Kline [email protected] http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix > > Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > accessibility mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > accessibility mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility > > > -- > Gary Kline [email protected] http://www.thought.org Public Service > Unix > Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. > > _______________________________________________ > accessibility mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility >
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