I've been loosely following this discussion and if there ever was an example of how wonderful unix-like operating systems are, a problem like this accentuates why unix-like systems are so good. Someone mentioned software that translates spoken audio in to English text. Now, all you have to do is feed that text in to a system with a screen reader and you've got exactly a system for delivering English, Spanish or whatever you want with whatever language you are looking for as the input. Of course, the voice will just be the screen reader or whatever text-to-speech engine you re using but still, with the powerful standard output concept of unix, one doesn't need to do a lot of unusual programming requiring linguistic knowledge at all to get where you are trying to go. The problem, of course, will be reduced to a mechanical issue of how do I get the text output from this program sent through standard output to the input of the speech engine? Notice, I've been saying unix-like and that's for a reason. There is Unix with a capital U which is actually a trademark of AT&T who developed Unix in 1968 or 1969. They wanted to come up with a way to make 1 main-frame computer serve all the workers in a project at what seems to be the same time but, in reality, is a very small difference in time for each client. So, everybody is on a really fast-spinning merry-go-round in which each horse is in the spot light for a fraction of a second and appears to have the computer to themselves. Everything they need is theirs and their's alone for a split second. Then, time is up for them and the computer saves everything from that rider and the next horse comes in to view and so on. If things are good, nobody gets to see what their neighbors are doing unless invited but it's all so fast that nobody notices the slight delay. Linux is an operating system that is like AT&T's Unix in concept plus a zillion other versions of Linux are the same. DEC in the 1980's had Ultrix and IBM came along with their version of a unix-like OS so probably very few of us are using Unix with a capital U but we all have that Unix to thank for a great idea.. O well, I should stop blathering now but the translation idea is one of the greatest examples I've seen in a long time of what unix-like OS's are really good at. Martin who started learning unix in 1989 and loved it. Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi Karen: Honestly, I had not considered which voice or how that would > work. I did write Jeremy directly-and-told him that the program he > suggested is on a site which requires javascript, so I mostly get a blank > page. > > Chime _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list