Hi Gary, Successfully compiled your TTS software. Very cool, however with one caveat: it failed to set the voice to female, it will always return to male. Suggestion: We may need to put a stop playing function.
Regards, Allan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Kline" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of accessibility on the OLPC" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 8:19:34 AM Subject: Re: [laptop-accessibility] Considering closing down the mailing list [email protected] Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 02:57:01PM -0700, Samuel Sennott wrote: > I too would like to find another outlet for the conversation around OLPC > accessibility. Hearing questions about how to create low-cost text to > speech and communication solutions and the OLPC project is something I > would like to get more into this year. > > Thank you, > > Samuel Sennott > Something occurred to me awhile back--namely, that there are N types of Linux and there is some kernel {??} or other difference that differentiates the distributions. E.g.: are Debian and Ubuntu Linux equivalent? I've spent most of my years hacking on the "BSD" open-Unix; thus my uncertainty.... ---FWIW, My new mini-keyboard arrived and is much easier to use---. Anyhow, as far as *my* version of free+open TTS is concerned, all you need to do on your 12.04 Ubuntu is create a user account named "kline," drop in the SHAR I posted on 01 jun 13, install espeak, gvim, and type "make." vbc will be your voice in any 8859-[12] tongue. > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Gary Kline <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. > > Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. > > > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:42:14AM -0700, Peter Korn wrote: > > > Hi Gary, > > > > > > There are three developments coming out of the AEGIS Project > > > <http://www.aegis-project.eu> that might be of interest. Take a > > > look at Dasher for Android > > > <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dasher.android>, > > > Tecla Access for Android > > > <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.idi.tekla> (that > > > provides tremendous control functionality as well), and > > > CCF-SymbolDroid <http://dev.androtech.se/ooo/content.html>(which is > > > compatible with TTS, but more focused on people with > > > language/cognitive impairments, yet still may be a useful choice). > > > > > > > > > thanks, peter, but none of your URL;'S did what by program does. > > you would have known that if you have done some minor hacking and > > exec's vbc. > > > > overworking {by putting in from 9- to 13-hour days} for nearly > > three years caused my shoulder to subluximate. voila! from > > severely disabled to damn-near Totally disabled. out of a job. > > > > I do not have android; I know the berkeley distro's at the > > kernel level ...... well, that's if you go back to the > > end-of-lawsuit. ihave slipped a bit. besides writing a slew > > of freeware, I spent 7 or 8 years earning my MA in philosophy. > > and because my shoulder is giving my grief, I have decided to > > hand off vbc to whomever wants to finish it. > > > > the only shortcoming I see is that t o learn vbc requires the > > use to learn a min of the "vim" text editor. this is neither > > good nor evil//easy nor hard. but it gives the speech-impaired > > user the flexibility of mapping abbrevs: "thr" becomes > > "there"; "i" maps to "I"; and "ths" becomes "this" or "those" > > depending on the user's desire. > > > > gary > > > > ps: vbc uses the GUI version of vim: gvim; espeak voices > > whatever is typed when the window is closed. > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Peter > > > (former AEGIS Technical Manager) > > > > > > On 8/21/2013 10:34 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > >Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. > > > >Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. > > > > > > > >On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:34:14PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > > >>Before this list goes away, I think it would be worthwhile to visit > > the accessibility of the recently-released XO Tablet. It's running Android > > 4.2 Jelly Bean and has a lot of XO-specific software installed. > > > >> > > > >>What accessibility features in Android would allow disabled users to > > make the best use of this tablet? > > > >> > > > >>I have, in particular, an interest in text-to-speech capabilities in > > Android. I know someone whose speech has been severely impaired by > > Parkinson's Disease, and if Android offers an affordable communication > > solution, I would recommend her purchase of this tablet in a heartbeat. I > > know that the iPad offers such apps, and that there are ruggedized/bump > > cases for it; however, we are talking about someone who is on a fixed > > income; if Android can offer the same capabilities for less money, I'd be > > willing to suggest the XO Tablet to her instead. > > > >> > > > >>_______________________________________________ > > > >>accessibility mailing list > > > >>[email protected] > > > >>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility > > > > hello to everyone of the accessibility list, > > > > > > > > I have dropped out of working on my "Voice By Computer" > > > > program some months back even though "VBC|vbc" works > > > > well on my Ubuntu linux desktop. I was the first severely > > > > disabled EE to graduate as a computer programmer in 1982 > > > > and have written several open source programs over the > > > > years. "vbc" is my text-to-speech effort that was and > > > > remains intended for people like myself with a speech > > > > impairment. > > > > > > > > some very old data is available at http://www.thought.org/vbc > > > > with a "src" link that will display a shar "List"; I put this > > > > up late last spring informed OLPC. Several minor hacks need > > > > to be made to store static data. ~/.config/inkscape/* is an > > > > example. What I have in /home/kline/.VBC should be moved to > > > > /home/kline/.config/.VBC/*. this is one example. > > > > > > > > vbc is written in C and GTK+. interested? have at it! > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> > > > Peter Korn | Accessibility Principal > > > Phone: +1 650 5069522 <tel:+1%20650%205069522> > > > 500 Oracle Parkway | Redwood City, CA 94064 > > > Green Oracle <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed > > > to developing practices and products that help protect the > > > environment > > > > -- > > Gary Kline [email protected] http://www.thought.org Public Service > > Unix > > Twenty-seven years of service to the Unix community. > > http://www.thought.org/HOPE > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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-seven years of service to the Unix community. http://www.thought.org/HOPE _______________________________________________ accessibility mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility _______________________________________________ accessibility mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility
