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Trobin · Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 872 Location: BC Canada

Slackware comes with emacspeak as part of the base suystem. They also have a UMSDOS miniversion called zipspaeak. Won't work on a NTFS partition.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 23 Dec 2007, 21:11 Post subject:

I Found this web browser for the blind, it works by voice.
here's the link http://sourceforge.net/projects/e-guidedog/
Merry Christmas & Happy New Years
ttuuxxx

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4636 Location: Manila

From the site :

Trobin · Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 872 Location: BC Canada

I don't suppose some one could make a dotpup out of it.

Looks likere it could be run using Festival, which I've gotten to work in OneBone.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

Trobin,

I tried making a .pet but, as it's perl based, "make install" leads to it going off to cpan & doing who knows what! Also, in your commandline puppy, will perl be available?

It would be good if someone else, that knows perl, can make a package, but otherwise, it does have links to other potentially useful CLI programs.

Trobin · Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 872 Location: BC Canada

Thanks for making the attempt.

OneBone-210-elinks does have perl.

Trobin · Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 872 Location: BC Canada

Okay, I need a translator. Someone who can read and understand perl.

What I am trying to do is get e-guidedog-Festival working in Puppy 21Rv1.01. perl Makefile.PL worked fine. make test gave the following result:

Trobin · Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 872 Location: BC Canada

I don't know what is happening, but somewhere long the line i srewed up. I think it was when I tried to do it in Puppy 301. Royally srewed up the pup_save file. So badly that I had to erase it and start over again. Probably should have left this up to a professional. Well in for a pound, in all the way.

I started over fresh. Pristine new copy of Puppy 214R v1.01 set up, running from live cd and saving a file to the hard drive.
Downloaded and installed Festival.pup
Downloaded and tried to get e-guidedog-0.577.tar.gz, but this time I couldn't get as far as I did.
Downloaded and installed Magnifier 3.3 from http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1441869457&t=14794http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.ph p?search_id=1441869457&t=14794
It worls well enough. It would work better though if I could click on something without losng he mgnifier. It's not unliveable because it lleaves a little rectangle in the task br, which is okay, but if one was visually impaiured, it could get lost in the clutter.

Trobin · Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 872 Location: BC Canada

Has anyone managed to get a screen reader working with Puppy kinux/

Trobin · Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 872 Location: BC Canada

Screader is the only screen reader that I've managd to get installed, or at least the install.sh progrm finishes by saying that Screader has been installed. I gather that the command to execute screader is screader. It does have the 'gear' icon hat I normally associate with an executible file in linux, or at least the Puppy version. However, when I click on it I get the following message:

Quote:
failed to execute child process /root/screader/screader (No such file or directory)

I tried running in a terminal window and got a similar message.

I tried changing the permissions to make it a-x (Make file executable/searchable). It might have worked. I don't know. What I do know is that when I tried clicking on the screader gear icon, in /roots/screader, getting the same message as above.

Any ideas?

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

Trobin,

try downloading one of these compiled debian screader .debs, then copying across the extracted /etc & /usr directories.

http://packages.debian.org/sarge/i386/screader/download

Trobin · Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 872 Location: BC Canada

Thank you.

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4636 Location: Manila

Just to cheer everyone following this thread, let me say that a group of college students in Manila is currently working on desktop application for the visually impaired (hopefully) using Puppy Linux. I have lectured to them a week ago about Puppy Linux, and informed them about this discussion. Hence, many eyes (and a few no eyes Smile

) from Manila are watching this discussion intently.

Happy New Year!!!

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

Hi raffy,

Yes it would be good if they could generate some fresh ideas. I'm actually quite surprised at the lack of available resources in this area.

Trobin · Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 872 Location: BC Canada

Emacspeak apparently works better with Flite instead of Festival. However, it appears to need eflite to act as an interface between emacspeak and Flite

http://eflite.sourceforge.net/

The page also has a patch that makes Flite 1.3, the version in the pet file, work with Alsa insted of OSS.

For what it's worth, it's there. I've yet to hear a peep out of the thing.