-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alex, I promised several folks I would give it a shot, and am putting the pieces together to attempt that now. You put your finger on the main missing piece of the puzzle, as I see it now. But provox needs a good overhaul itself. It is officially more than 20 years old, pre-dating avision from Artic. It first supported only three HW synths: the Echo GP, the Votrax external synth, and the Intex Talker. When the Votrax "votalker" internal board was produced, provox was the first screen reader to support it. Then the guys with the know-how left Votrax to form their own company, Artic Technologies, and took the Votalker concept with them, and provox actually supported the Artic internal board even before Avision was released. So it's definitely not very up-to-date, but it is robust and anal-obsessively small. Provox and Tiny Talk were locked in a friendly race to see who could squeeze the most code into the smallest space. I forget who won. It was the race that mattered, not the outcome. Chuck On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 02:25:37PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote: > I'm not sure how you'd get it to work with espeak under dos, as I > don't think espeak supports anything other then outputting wav files > under dos...you would have to modify it to use whatever facilities are > provided for accessing a soundcard under dos. > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at > 02:08:08PM -0300, Cleverson wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I've read the recent posts about accessibility on MS-DOS and FreeDOS > > systems. > > > > I don't know how Provox compares to other DOS screen reader, but as far > > as I know, it's the only open source one. Hence, I would also enjoy it > > being able to speak through the ESpeak soft synth, especially because > > it's the only synth capable of speaking Brazilian Portuguese that has a > > DOS version. > > > > Besides it, in addition to FreeDOS, there is another DOS that's free > > for non commercial use. It is Enhanced DR-DOS (EDR-DOS). According to > > its author, its kernel supports pre-emptive multitasking. See: > > http://www.drdosprojects.de/ > > > > and: > > http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php > > > > Cheers, > > Cleverson > > > > > > Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail, o ?nico sem limite de espa?o para armazenamento! > > http://br.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Absolutely nothing should be concluded from these figures except that > no conclusion can be drawn from them. > -- Joseph L. Brothers, Linux/PowerPC Project) > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- The Moon is Waning Crescent (43% of Full) My web site is: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net, my phone is: 1-518-334-9022, and sometimes I Jabber. My JID is: chuckh at jabber.org -------- Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. -- Napoleon I -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHyGBG0maTgpPXM9cRAr2uAJ9YRn1JWamjIR3cjexy94cXtiAhpwCfcNa3 j8eXL6ShEhb2/Cf8nAMEe+Y= =Y4jV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
