Re: Accessibility options in Debian
You might check out viavoice but I don't know if it's free.
On Mon, 22 Jul 2019, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:41:00
> From: Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <jpmengual@debian.org>
> To: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Accessibility options in Debian
> Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:41:14 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
>
> Hi,
>
> This topic is very important for me but I have few info, so I am happy is
> someone can tell us.
>
> In my mind, Simon is for KDE. So not easily universalisable on other desktops.
> Butt I would appreciate any suggestion of dictation program, it is a very
> important request from my users of Debian and free software.
>
> Regards
>
> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
>
> Le 22/07/2019 ? 16:40, Aaron a ?crit?:
> > 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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