[laptop-accessibility] Screen reader software -- any progress?

[Duane King]

Brad,
 Another advantage to using the speech dispatcher and its API is that a lot of 
wok can be leveraged from it; There is an entire community gathered around it 
already, and its already used in production systems by blind computer 
professionals like myself, hence why I suggested it to Hemant off the list.

I would personalky love it if more people joined our little co-oped efforts; 
and by all means your group - or any others - are more then welcome to do so.

- Duane

On Saturday 09 February 2008 09:20:51 am Hemant Goyal wrote:
> Brad,
>
> Maybe we should coordinate our efforts. We are presently working to bring
> speech synthesis capabilities on the XO.
>
> We have made significant progress and are documenting our results here :
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Screen_Reader [It is slightly outdated wrt the
> DBUS speech server, as we are planning to dump that approach and instead
> use speech-dispatcher]
>
> At present Assim Deodia is working to improve the eSpeak phoneme data for
> better voice quality/output on the XO, and I am working on integrating
> speech-dispatcher in the XO as a means of providing a simple to use speech
> synthesis api.
>
> I have opened a Ticket which might interest you :
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6284
>
> Best,
> Hemant
>
> This posting is very new and, at the moment, consists only of a block
>
> > diagram of the approach I am proposing.  I have several pages of
> > narrative in the works at the moment and I am hoping to post the first
> > version of it to the Free Speech wiki article sometime this weekend.  In
> > the meantime, please check out the links in the "See also" section of the
> > article.  Those linked-to articles contain links to other speech-related
> > efforts currently underway for the XO (for example, eSpeak).
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Brad