On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Jean Jordaan wrote:
> He is a literature student with no interest in computers for their
> own sake. If he can write documents, use email, and surf the web, he
> would be content. In fact, if he could simply write, he would be
> content. But I believe that email and Internet could change his life.
> Here is my question: wouldn't Emacspeak solve his problems?
I bet it could.
>From <http://www.kopari.com/emacspeak.html>:
Emacspeak has a completely different approach to speech enabling
Emacs apps (which as you know are numerous). Emacspeak looks at the
program environment and data of the applications, and speaks the
information the way it should be spoken. So in the case of the
calendar, you hear "Thursday, April 27, 1995".
This means you do not need to look at a display to read news or
mail, browse the Web, use Calc, write code or a novel.
In addition to appropriately different voices, Emacspeak provides
non-speech auditory cues so you don't lose track of what is going
on.
> Would it be possible for non-specialists to set up a 100% stable
> Linux installation with Emacspeak as main application, with drivers
> for his speech synth & braille printer?
I tried (unsucessfully) to install Emacspeak without a speech synth. But if
you had the synth, I guess it would be easy to do. Just install a base
installation making sure you have PPP, Emacs, all the Emacs Lisp packages,
and Emascspeak.
Don't know about the printer.
