[Trainer-talk] free open source screen reader?

Nancy Coffman nancylc at sprynet.com
Sat Oct 31 23:55:23 UTC 2009


Let's not forget the Windows Mobile smart phones in this discussion. 
Simbion phones only work on select networks that don't provide good coverage 
everywhere.  It is unfortunate that almost everything is centered about 
those phones.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
To: <trainer-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 12:44 PM
Subject: [Trainer-talk] free open source screen reader?


> Hi,
>
> I am looking for volunteers for an idea I have to create a free open 
> source screen reader for Symbian 2nd and 3rd edition and beyond phones. 
> Like NVDA for Symbian which would use all free open source components: 
> such as ESpeak for speech output and brltty for braille output. I'm tired 
> of paying $300 if I had wanted to buy Talks so I think I'll just make my 
> own Symbian screen reader and release it as open source software. Also 
> woould be cool if someday we could have free OCR software for Symbian.
>
> Josh
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