[nfbcs] FREEBSD: speech and software, oh my!

[Jude DaShiell]

I think it would be neat to have the first emacspeak-equipped accessible 
install dvd to try.  My only concern is that whatever distro got used 
for this still has security support.  Specifically with free-bsd the 
learn utility with all of its modules could be installed and for people 
that didn't know unix they could use that learn utility to get up to 
speed.  I once found instructions for installing a slackware system with 
emacs and tried those out but since emacs didn't work when installed the 
whole system was an accessibility failure.

On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, Littlefield, Tyler via nfbcs wrote:

> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 01:02:27
> From: "Littlefield, Tyler via nfbcs" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
> Subject: [nfbcs] FREEBSD: speech and software, oh my!
> 
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> Hey all,
> I don't know what the interest level is in something like this, but
> I'm pretty excited about it, as I've really wanted a way to install
> FREEBsd for a while with speech.
>
> I sat down tonight and finally got everything working together: yasr
> runs through emacspeak which runs through ESpeak and you have a screen
> reader. I'm looking into remastering images; until I can get this
> builtin, I'll compile and host the ISO images which will enable speech
> installations. I think for now while I look into remastering I'm going
> to look into maintaining the YASR port, making additions to it to
> support an espeak-connector and just booting the emacspeak server out
> of this whole setup. Which isn't to say that we don't need emacspeak,
> just that I could write something like this in c++ and end up with a
> much smaller package that doesn't rely on TCL.
>
> If there's any interest let me know, I'll probably create a mailing
> list sometime really soon.
> Thanks,
> - --
> Take care,
> Ty
> twitter: @sorressean
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