Re: Accessibility options in Debian
I think festival has capability to take voice dictation. I got into
using its voice output though so never used its dictation capability.
On Mon, 22 Jul 2019, Aaron wrote:
> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 10:40:20
> From: Aaron <aaron.chantrill@dottywood.org>
> To: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Accessibility options in Debian
> Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 14:48:52 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
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> A few years ago I was working as a developer for a university website.
> One of my jobs was ensuring Section 508 compliance. To this end, I had
> downloaded a copy of Orca and used it to try navigating the website and
> learned to use better voices through festival and mary tts.
>
> I also was using Simon (from the Simon-listens foundation) as a way of
> controlling the computer via voice commands. I have also found the simon
> training application helpful in developing specific speech controlled
> interfaces. I notice that Simon does not appear to be available in the
> standard Buster repositories. It also appears that development on Simon
> appears to have stalled in 2015, with the lead developer leaving to work
> on Siri, although the latest commit to the master branch on cgit.kde.org
> was in February this year, so I would consider it still an active project.
>
> Is anyone using Simon? Is there an alternative available? Can anyone
> recommend between Orca and Screader or any other screen reading software
> for modern accessibility testing?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aaron
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