----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Smith" <matt@kbc.net.au> To: "WAI Interest Group" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 5:40 PM Subject: Alternative Browsers / Test Software Hi All For what it's worth, I have thrown together a very, very basic voice user agent (UA). I did this for three reasons: 1) To have a "stupid" UA which speaks what it's given - lets me hear whether my work makes sense when spoken. 2) To provide a speech interface for a kiosk system that I am working on. 3) To allow me to understand the issues involved when designing a mechanical system that can interpret XHTML content. The UA is written in Perl, with a Tk User Interface. It operates by retrieving a page, converting the XHTML (I only designed it to test my own stuff) to the Sable markup language, using XSLT and then passing the result to the Festival Text-to-Speech (TTS) system. This programme is *not* designed for "surfing the Web"; links are announced, but there is no user interaction once reading has started. For clarity, I use the Mbrola en1 male voice for page titles, headings, etc., and the Mbrola us1 female voice for content. Festival's default voice kicks in for all the tag conversions that I haven't included in the stylesheet. The functionality can be changed/expanded easily, simply by changing/adding rules to the stylesheet. If anyone would find this useful, please contact me off-list. The software is written for a Linux/Unix environment, but could probably be converted to other Operating Systems by those with the savvy. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith IT Consultant Kadina, South Australia _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list