Re: Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

2012-12-27 Thread Robert Cole
Hello, Helen. This would probably be off-topic for the Orca list, but the AccessibleFreedom Support list may be a good place to start. Here is the Info Page for this list: http://gator1140.hostgator.com/mailman/listinfo/support_accessiblefreedom.org I hope that this is helpful to you. On 12

Re: Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

2012-12-23 Thread faginbagin
I would love to know if there's one mailing list that would allow me to reach the widest audience. I don't know if I'm up to joining ten different lists. For what it's worth, last night, Ron Whyte (aka Fudge) set up an IRC channel, #MythSpeech, on irc.freenode.net. I'm there now and expect to b

Re: Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

2012-12-23 Thread faginbagin
Hi B.H. The current implementation of mythspeech doesn't depend on Qt or Orca. It does depend on speech-dispatcher, it's library libspeechd, and a speech synthesizer, e.g. espeak or festival. The versions provided on precise 12.04 is 0.7.1 for speech-dispatcher/libspeechd and 1.46.02 for espea

Re: Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

2012-12-23 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, I am in however I have no one to ask for help while setting it up so I am afraid I am not going to be usefull for quite sometime. I am interested in accessible tv solution for linux so no mather what turns out promising I will start using it. Greetings Peter On 23. 12. 2012 0:36, f

Re: Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

2012-12-22 Thread faginbagin
Hi B.H. (an anyone else using an older distribution) If there's interest, I can see what it would take to get mythspeech working on 10.04. As it happens, my "production" MythTV environment consists of machines running 10.04 and 10.10 (for TV tuners that needed a newer kernel), with MythTV 0.23

Re: Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

2012-12-22 Thread faginbagin
Hi All, I just realized that my replies to those who have responded have been private, which was not what I intended. So, I am about to re-send those to the list. My apologies in advance to those who are about to see duplicate messages. Helen -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-access

Re: Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

2012-12-22 Thread faginbagin
On 12/22/2012 06:00 PM, Hank Smith wrote: wasn't it written in qt to begin with? if so why can't they just inable accessibility? or would that involve writing intire code to impl;iment qt accessibility? Yes, it was written in Qt. However MythTV's user interface objects are not subclassed from

Re: Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

2012-12-22 Thread faginbagin
On 12/22/2012 05:39 PM, Peter Vágner wrote: Hello, I understand mithtv is full solution but writing qt accessibility support is going to be damn complicated. It is a huge codebase and no one has ever considered accessibility before. I would be happy if something like this existed but I think it

Re: Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

2012-12-22 Thread faginbagin
Mythspeech is a result of posts on both the mythtv-users and the mythtv-dev mailing lists: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/524971 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/530199 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/525790 There was no response on the mytht

Re: Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

2012-12-22 Thread faginbagin
Hi B.H. No it doesn't have a CLI to speak of, although there are a number of command line utilities and there is support for a "frontend control socket" (see http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.5). There is also a web interface called mythweb where you can browse program listi

Re: Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

2012-12-22 Thread faginbagin
Hi Hank, Would that be through the ubuntu-accessibility-devel list? I looked through the archives for that list and it seems pretty quiet. There are occasional posts by people asking questions, but no replies. That's why I haven't joined and posted there. If you have other suggestions, I welco

Re: Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

2012-12-22 Thread Hank Smith
wasn't it written in qt to begin with? if so why can't they just inable accessibility? or would that involve writing intire code to impl;iment qt accessibility? thanks Hank On 12/22/2012 3:39 PM, Peter Vágner wrote: Hello, I understand mithtv is full solution but writing qt accessibility suppo

Re: Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

2012-12-22 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, I understand mithtv is full solution but writing qt accessibility support is going to be damn complicated. It is a huge codebase and no one has ever considered accessibility before. I would be happy if something like this existed but I think it is not a project for a few open-source deve

Re: Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

2012-12-22 Thread Hank Smith
please try to reach out to the developers. this program I am also told is one of the better tv sulutions for linux. Hank On 12/22/2012 2:45 PM, faginbagin wrote: I'd like to announce Mythspeech, which makes it easier for the blind and/or visually impaired to use MythTV, an open source DVR (digit

Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

2012-12-22 Thread faginbagin
I'd like to announce Mythspeech, which makes it easier for the blind and/or visually impaired to use MythTV, an open source DVR (digital video recorder). Information about MythTV can be found here: http://www.mythtv.org/ It is supported by Ubuntu and there is a Ubuntu based distribution customiz