Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

Probably off topic, APH and NBP were selling blank NLS cartridges and a cable.  If you have that cable, you can copy any regular NLS cartridge and play it on an authorized player.  Or you could download it from the NLS web site. On 9/7/2017 12:51 PM, Linux for blind general discussion

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

Thank you, Lloyd, for your informative reply. I have submitted a request to be mailed an application, and find myself hopeful that BARD will prove more accessible than commercial digital content services. As most of my old cassettes are newer than the time frame you mention, I'm hopeful I'll be

speechdispatcher-git

It builds but doesn't run. Seems to be missing libdotconf.so.0 and the libdotconf library doesn't appear to be in the archlinux repositories. I uncommented lines in speechdispatcher-git PKGBUILD file to enable speechdispatcher to run as a system-wide process and this may be necessary for

RE: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

I'll answer at least some of your questions. First of all, you can save yourself a lot of aggravation by setting up an account on BARD, the NLS Braille and Audio Reading Download service. Magazines recorded by NLS since about 2007 are all available on the site. Books that originally were

Re: Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

Ok, I know that there is a kind of cable that works with those digital cartridges.  I guess that the drives just have a regular file system on them.  The NLS digital book player is linux based and there should be no reason for the file system to be different. The files on there are .3gp

Digitizing audio cassettes and extracting the contents of digital cartridges.

Okay, this isn't strictly Linux related and is more a hardware issue, but I'll be using a Linux PC in text-mode for anything in the solution the requires my PC. Okay, so I want to rip my collection of 4-track audio cassettes, but none of them are the standard format used for Music back in the

Re: archlinux gnome and orca package

After that failure, I removed gnome and gnome-extra from this system. So far as I can find out on this end, archlinux works great with espeakup doesn't work any longer with emacspeak and speechdispatcher and orca not at all. Until I find far better documentation on how to actually get these

Re: archlinux gnome and orca package

I think I understand. I never run speakup in a gnome-terminal session, never thought it would make sense, but I do work as the same user in the text terminals as with the gui. None too sure I want to change that, but I should give it a look. Al On 9/6/2017 6:52 PM, Linux for blind general

Re: archlinux gnome and orca package

Don't worry I'm having the same thing as well. I keep wondering if there if there is a service I need to enable for speech dispatcher or change something in config files. I might try ratpoison with orca. On 9/6/17, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > I replaced

Re: Accessible music services on Linux?

I hadn't tried Google Play Music in Firefox for a rather long time, as the last time I loaded it into Firefox, it told me to download that deprecated Flash player plugin. I had been loading it into Chromium since it worked without it there. However, I can see now that they fixed that, and no

Re: Accessible music services on Linux?

Hi, I mainly use Google Play Music since it's one of the few streaming services available in South Africa. The web version is quite accessible, with keystrokes like plus and minus to control the volume, and space, right arrow and left arrow for play, next and previous respectively. It works quite