On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:15:15PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello, all: > > I'm trying to set up a Debian laptop (so this is not _completely_ offtopic > :) for my Dad, whose sight has almost failed. I have bought Fonix's > DECtalk software, and it works quite nicely on the command line (i.e. it > "speaks" what I type), but the only application I can find which uses it > is emacspeak, which has way too steep a learning curve and in any event is > much more than Dad needs, which is basically web-browsing (lynx would be > good) and email (for which I'd set him up with mutt or pine). I tried > screader, but couldn't get it to work with DECtalk's 'say' program; and > its documentation is so sketchy, I couldn't begin to diagnose the problem. > > Any help will be much appreciated, and I'll report back (and probably > create a website) so that anyone else wanting to set up a minimal but > functional "talking" system will be able to do it more easily! > > Thanks > > Patrick This is about best website I've seen on Linux accessibilty. http://trace.wisc.edu/linux/index.htm -- Jerome
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