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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Tuesday, 08 January, 2013 08:06 AM,
Gary Kline wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 07:03:52AM +0800, Allan E. Registos wrote:
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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. ]</pre>
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<small>Yes I am</small>,<small> I am from Davao.</small><br>
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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. </pre>
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<small>That would be a great tool/software for people with speech
disability if you intend to release it to the public.</small><br>
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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.
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<small>You can release it with a free license and start a campaign
to raise funds for continued development.</small><br>
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<pre wrap=""> 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.</pre>
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<small>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.</small>
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Need help.
thanks much!
gary kline
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<pre wrap="">----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Kline" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kline@thought.org"><kline@thought.org></a>
To: "Accessibility Laptop List" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:accessibility@lists.laptop.org"><accessibility@lists.laptop.org></a>
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.
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