On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 06:24:04PM -0600, Cindy Anderson wrote:
> I could have used this a month ago when I had elbow surgery and was looking
> for better ways to access my computer that were not really expensive and did
> not require me to upgrade my system software.
>
> Still interested.
>
> Cindy Anderson
What, exactly, are you still interested in? My program involves
the speech-impaired and nothing else?
gary kline
> From: "Allan E. Registos"
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Reply-To: Discussion of accessibility on the OLPC
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Date: Monday, January 7, 2013 6:19 PM
> To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>"
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: Re: [laptop-accessibility] just a test...
>
> On Tuesday, 08 January, 2013 08:06 AM, Gary Kline 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. ]
>
> Yes I am, I am from Davao.
>
> 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.
>
> That would be a great tool/software for people with speech disability if you
> intend to release it to the public.
>
> 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.
>
> You can release it with a free license and start a campaign to raise funds
> for continued development.
>
> 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.
>
> I recommend you use google apps for non-profits. google.com/apps so that you
> can retain your domain(thought.org) and stop worrying of having email
> backups. I think it is free of up to 10 users.
>
> Need help.
>
> thanks much!
>
> gary kline
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Gary Kline" <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>
> To: "Accessibility Laptop List"
> <[email protected]><mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.thought.org
> Public Service Unix
> Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.
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