[comp.sys.amiga] Using an amiga to read to the blind

paulm@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Paul Matulonis) (02/01/91)

Does anyone have an easy way to get the Amiga to talk 
to the blind?  I've a blind friend whom I'm trying to assist 
in using a mainframe-pc link and she's getting a little 
exasperated with the solutions she's tried using so far (generally 
a laptop clone with a speech synthesizer using some sort of 
capture software to allow the screen to be read).

I'd like to use some sort of vt100 like emulator  (handshake, etc) 
and pipe the text through _SAY_.  I've only got 1/2 meg on my 
a1000 and can't handle any overly sophisticated (read memory hogging) 
solutions, but if one of you out there can point me in the 
direction of a good solution it might just give me cause to 
(finally) upgrade to a new amiga.

Thanks in advance.  I'd appreciate any responses get e-mailed 
directly to me as I've long since given up trying to stay even 
mildly current with this particular newsgroup.
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paulm@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
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Paul Matulonis
Dept. of Biology
City College of New York
138th & Convent Ave.
NY, NY 10038