[laptop-accessibility] just a test...

[Allan E. Registos]

On Tuesday, 08 January, 2013 08:06 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
> 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. ]
Yes I am,I am from Davao.
>
> 	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.
That would be a great tool/software for people with speech disability if 
you intend to release it to the public.
>
> 	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.
You can release it with a free license and start a campaign to raise 
funds for continued development.
>   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.
I recommend you use google apps for non-profits. google.com/apps so that 
you can retain your domain(thought.org) and stop worrying of having 
email backups. I think it is free of up to 10 users.
>
> 	Need help.
>
> 	thanks much!
>
> 	gary kline
>
>
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> From: "Gary Kline" <kline at thought.org>
>> To: "Accessibility Laptop List" <accessibility at lists.laptop.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 6:58:30 AM
>> Subject: [laptop-accessibility] just a test...
>>
>>
>> just a test. is anyone at the other end of this list? I have a
>> major CopyLeft program to announce.
>> -- 
>> Gary Kline kline at thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
>> Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.
>>
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