[laptop-accessibility] just a test...

[Christine Mary]

hi


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> 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. ]
>
>         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>
> > 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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