Hi. what do you think about this project for my programming course? looking to build a speech app for installing windows. let me know your input. on how to get this project working, using the speakup model, and implementing for windows. cheers Marvin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxx> To: "Marvin Hunkin" <marvkin at hotmail.com> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 2:29 AM Subject: Fwd: Re: [program-l] Re: Programming Project Information I sent the message below to the program-l list but I wanted to make sure you got it. Plus I thought of something to add... JAWS for DOS is available free for download from their web site. I think this would allow you to make a CD that would boot DOS and speak via JAWS. So you might not have to use linux. >Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:07:01 -0600 >To: program-l at freelists.org >From: John Heim <jheim at wisc.edu> >Subject: Re: [program-l] Re: Programming Project Information > >I think it can be done... > >1) Create a bootable CD, perhaps even a linux bootable CD with a built in >speech synth. There's a linux distro called Oralux that already does this. >Could also be don insDOS. > >2) Write a character program like the installer programs that come with >every linux distro. This program runs automaticaly after boot. > >In the program: >a) Ask the user all the questions needed to install windos >b) Prompt the user to insert a diskette >c) Write a diskette for an unattended Windows installation >d) Prompt the user to replace the CD with their Windows Installation CD >e) Reboot > >to me, this ounds like about a semester of work for 3-5 people. -- John G. Heim University of Wisconsin - Division of Information Technology (DoIT) 1210 West Dayton St, #4297, Phone: 2-9887 To boldly code what no one has coded before.
