hi<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Gary Kline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kline@thought.org" target="_blank">kline@thought.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 07:03:52AM +0800, Allan E. Registos wrote:<br>
> Hi.<br>
<br>
<br>
hi!<br>
<br>
according to your email and TZ, you are from somewhere in the<br>
Phils, if I'm not mistaken. my wife was born there. [ just<br>
intro. chatter. ]<br>
<br>
about ten years ago when I was at a local hospital here in Seattle,<br>
the speech therapist showed me a Windoze box with a touch keyboard,<br>
batteries, and speaker. I only have one working hand and could<br>
barely heft the thing. it was difficult to use even tho I have<br>
been using a typewriter or computer keyboard since my youth. my<br>
thoughts then were that with a little hacking, I could buy a<br>
smallish laptop and develop a graphic tool for the speech-<br>
disabled {or mute}. the affected person would listen to his<br>
friend(s) who were talking, and reply by having the computer be his<br>
voice.<br>
<br>
I was already laid-off from a work injury and going to school in<br>
a completely different field, so I never did anything except<br>
outline my plans and continue with my schooling. ---The nutshell<br>
of the story is that given 6+ month hacking in C and teaching<br>
myself gtk ---AND having lots of help with the gtk suite, I<br>
recently completed my project.<br>
<br>
VBC {Voice-by-Computer} requires espeak, gtk, and vim/gvim. But<br>
it does essentially what I thought of those years ago--2003 or<br>
'04 or '05--whatever it was.<br>
<br>
I talked to some hacker at Galluadet University who was<br>
volunteering his time of the "one child per computer" project;<br>
I also talked to another person or two. This was around '07 or<br>
'08; there was definite interest in my project. I promised to<br>
get back in touch when/if I ever finished the project.<br>
<br>
It's done. I dont know what version--possibly 0.20 to 0.35.<br>
It works. VBC runs on any Unix/linux/android--[i think android]<br>
tablet. I have run this domain, <a href="http://thought.org" target="_blank">thought.org</a>, for over 25 years<br>
and gone thru dozens of used and homebrew hardware; I have<br>
suffered many crashes; recent ones cost me former email backups.<br>
So I have lost my record of who I was emailing at <a href="http://laptop.org" target="_blank">laptop.org</a>.<br>
<br>
Need help.<br>
<br>
thanks much!<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
gary kline<br>
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> ----- Original Message -----<br>
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> From: "Gary Kline" <<a href="mailto:kline@thought.org">kline@thought.org</a>><br>
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 6:58:30 AM<br>
> Subject: [laptop-accessibility] just a test...<br>
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> just a test. is anyone at the other end of this list? I have a<br>
> major CopyLeft program to announce.<br>
> --<br>
> Gary Kline <a href="mailto:kline@thought.org">kline@thought.org</a> <a href="http://www.thought.org" target="_blank">http://www.thought.org</a> Public Service Unix<br>
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