[accessibility] brlspeak presentation
Hello
This is just to give the list some news about the brlspeak project,
Last week, four of us were in Paris for our first 'event', we had been
invited by la cité des sciences (some sort of a national science center),
everything went smoothly and we've seen that in the long term our project
could really have an important audience. We ve gotten to really discover
their hardwares and their handicap, it was really interesting.
Debian is particularly adapted to visual deficient, and since our system
mainly aims at newbies, apt is a wonderful thing (we used to be based on
slackware...).
Mbrola quickly appeared as a really nice solution since some came from
foreign countries, so I consider it as important that mbrola binary gets into
non-free. However, it has so many voices (58!!) that it is really heavy,
approximately 400MB. I would not hope to publish this in debian mainstream,
but I think I'm going to make an installer package, something like for the
package agsatellite. The text to phoneme programs that must be used with
mbrola (mbrola only does phoneme to speech), are almost all under the gpl so
it should not be a problem.
seb
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