Hi All,
Due to the brilliant work from the Sansa V2 team on here i am running rockbox again. I was a real time systems developer who lost his sight in 2006. Now I dedicate my time to improve accessibility for people with sight loss. The Rockbox project is unique for its consideration of the visually impaired user, therefore it has my full support and time. This e-mail is just to say hi and let people know I am on hand to help out any way I can, suggestions welcome. It would be nice to get talking with the people who are focused on working on accessibility on Rockbox so that i can join in. I have just put forward a small command line tool for rbutil that should help to make the SAPI integration more flexible and work toward cross platform support for SAPI voices. Depending on the rbutil guys i would love to see an option where the SAPI voices can be accessed in any WINE compatible platform, Linux, Mac etc from the native rbutil app. This has a huge advantage for users with more exotic languages. As someone who uses a lot of speech enabled applications i enjoy a nicer sounding voice where ever possible. My side project open-sapi (http://code.google.com/p/open-sapi/) has take the SAPI engine and has it running in Ubuntu with Gnome and Orca. I have taken this work and translated in to a usable application for rbutility. I am a Linux and Gnome user, the screen reader on Gnome that i currently use is Orca. The rbutil as it stands is totally inaccessible using my setup. I would like to help get this working and i'm not afraid of some hard work. If it is accessibility related then please suggest it and I am happy to work on it. The description of what I am currently working on is not very clear but feel free to e-mail me directly if your want a better idea of what i am trying to do. Tom L (notlistening)
