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prospective Text to Speech is extremely important and has helped me a =
great deal=20
throughout my education and now my job - which is to develop peripherals =
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OLPC.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=3DGaramond></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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currently use this software;</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=3DGaramond><A=20
href=3D"http://www.texthelp.com/page.asp?pg_id=3D1071">http://www.texthel=
p.com/page.asp?pg_id=3D1071</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=3DGaramond></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><SPAN class=3D336400514-02012008><FONT =
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enables you to read any text on your screen. You select text, press =
play, and=20
listen. A handy feature is that the reader will continue to read =
paragraphs=20
below your selected text until you tell it to stop. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=3DGaramond></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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face=3DGaramond>This=20
email is less about direction and more about encouragement as I believe =
this is=20
a truly valuable piece of software. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=3DGaramond></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><SPAN class=3D336400514-02012008><FONT=20
face=3DGaramond>Please feel free to contact me if you feel my =
prospective on this=20
issue could help.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=3DGaramond></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><SPAN class=3D336400514-02012008><FONT =
face=3DGaramond>Kind=20
regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=3DGaramond></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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face=3DGaramond></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><SPAN class=3D336400514-02012008><FONT=20
face=3DGaramond>Josh</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=3DTahoma size=3D2><B>From:</B> devel-bounces at lists.laptop.org =
[mailto:devel-bounces at lists.laptop.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Hemant=20
Goyal<BR><B>Sent:</B> 30 December 2007 17:52<BR><B>To:</B>=20
accessibility at lists.laptop.org; devel at lists.laptop.org<BR><B>Cc:</B> =
Arjun=20
Sarwal; Cody Lodrige; tomhannen at gmail.com; Assim =
Deodia<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:=20
How can the XO be made accessible to blind<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Hi,<BR><BR>We have been working on a simple screen reader for =
the XO=20
and have made some headway. We have ported and customized eSpeak for the =
XO. A=20
text to speech server has been written and methods exposed through Dbus =
. I have=20
documented the work done till now at <A=20
href=3D"http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Screen_Reader"=20
target=3D_blank><FONT>http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Screen_Reader</FONT></A>.=
The DBUS=20
api may be changed in the future. However, we still need to do some =
extensive=20
testing and refine the structure of the speech server. <BR><BR>We had =
initially=20
planned to provide a simple highlight and speak option for the xo. We =
now think=20
that we should scale up and structure the project to use eSpeak in a =
much more=20
effective manner to provide accessibility to blind/low vision students.=20
<BR><BR>I think it would be brilliant if activity developers could =
exploit the=20
underlying speech server to write accessible activities. For example, an =
activity at present can connect to the speech service through dbus and =
send it=20
strings of text to be spoken. We hope to prepare some guidelines for =
activity=20
developers to write accessible activities that could use the speech =
server. What=20
would be best way to do this? <BR><BR>We are also planning to explore=20
Orca. We dont want to rush into development now, and would like to =
take=20
some time in properly planning our approach and creating some design =
documents=20
first.<BR><BR>It'll be nice if experts could share their ideas and =
provide us=20
with some direction for this project. <BR><BR>Thank you and wishing you =
all a=20
very Happy New Year.<BR><BR>Warm regards,<BR>Hemant Goyal<BR><BR>
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style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: =
rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Message:=20
1<BR>Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:57:38 +0000<BR>From: "Gabey8" <<A=20
=
href=3D"mailto:accessibility at lists.laptop.org">accessibility at lists.laptop=
.org</A>><BR>Subject:=20
[laptop-accessibility] How can the XO be made accessible to <BR> =
=20
blind users?<BR>To: <A=20
=
href=3D"mailto:accessibility at lists.laptop.org">accessibility at lists.laptop=
.org</A><BR>Message-ID:=20
<<A=20
=
href=3D"mailto:1198857458.m2f.4754 at olpc.osuosl.org">1198857458.m2f.4754 at o=
lpc.osuosl.org=20
</A>><BR><BR><BR>I have some deaf-blind friends who use braille =
attachments=20
to access their computers.<BR><BR>What needs to be done in order to =
permit the=20
XO to work with a braille terminal or notetaker? What screen reading =
programs=20
are available for Linux? <BR><BR>And if said screen reading programs =
don't=20
like working with Sugar (yet, anyway), is setting the XO up to boot to =
the=20
terminal screen and going with text-only a viable solution for braille =
users?<BR><BR>Donna<BR><BR>------------------------<BR>Donna -- purple =
outline=20
with orange fill color. If you see me in the Neighborhood, say hi!=20
:)<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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