[laptop-accessibility] just a test...

[Gary Kline]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 07:03:52AM +0800, Allan E. Registos wrote:
> Hi. 


	hi!  

	according to your email and TZ, you are from somewhere in the
	Phils, if I'm not mistaken.  my wife was born there.  [ just
	intro. chatter. ]

	about ten years ago when I was at a local hospital here in Seattle,
	the speech therapist showed me a Windoze box with a touch keyboard,
	batteries, and speaker.  I only have one working hand and could
	barely heft the thing.  it was difficult to use even tho I have 
	been using a typewriter or computer keyboard since my youth.  my
	thoughts then were that with a little hacking, I could buy a
	smallish laptop and develop a graphic tool for the speech-
	disabled {or mute}.  the affected person would listen to his
	friend(s) who were talking, and reply by having the computer be his
	voice.  

	I was already laid-off from a work injury and going to school in
	a completely different field, so I never did anything except
	outline my plans and continue with my schooling.  ---The nutshell
	of the story  is that given 6+ month hacking in C and teaching
	myself gtk ---AND having lots of help with the gtk suite, I 
	recently completed my project.

	VBC {Voice-by-Computer} requires espeak, gtk, and vim/gvim.  But
	it does essentially what I thought of those years ago--2003 or 
	'04 or '05--whatever it was.

	I talked to some hacker at Galluadet University who was
	volunteering his time of the "one child per computer" project;
	I also talked to another person or two.  This was around '07 or
	'08; there was definite interest in my project.  I promised to
	get back in touch when/if I ever finished the project.  

	It's done.  I dont know what version--possibly 0.20 to 0.35.
	It works.  VBC runs on any Unix/linux/android--[i think android]
	tablet.   I have run this domain, thought.org, for over 25 years
	and gone thru dozens of used and homebrew hardware; I have 
	suffered many crashes; recent ones cost me former email backups.
	So I have lost my record of who I was emailing at laptop.org.

	Need help.

	thanks much!

	gary kline



> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> From: "Gary Kline" <kline at thought.org> 
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 6:58:30 AM 
> Subject: [laptop-accessibility] just a test... 
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> 
> just a test. is anyone at the other end of this list? I have a 
> major CopyLeft program to announce. 
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 Gary Kline  kline at thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
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