jrv@mitre-bedford.arpa (James R. Van Zandt) (03/15/88)
A visually handicapped friend is considering the purchase of a '386
machine to run Xenix. He would like to use a speech synthesizer (i.e.
ASCII data stream to spoken words) as a console output device.
Software would also be needed so that he could, for example, ask that
text displayed on a particular part of the screen be verbalized. I
wrote some software for these functions for use under MS-DOS. I assume
that the requirements for Unix would be similar - a new or extensively
revised console device driver. Has anyone else worked on this problem?
Is such software available, either commercially or otherwise? Does
anyone have another sort of special-purpose console driver I could use
as a starting point? (I've been programming in C for some time, and use
Unix, but know very little about Unix device drivers.)
Please reply by mail, as I do not monitor these newsgroups.
- Jim Van Zandt (jrv@mitre-bedford.arpa)