
--- Nick Hockings <s96121272@op.up.ac.za>, s96121272@tuks.co.za,
>	nickh@nupedia.com
> wrote:
>Text-to-speach is important for blind, visually impaired, and dyslexic people.
>Does anyone know of a Free app to do this? Imagine being able to write and xhtml 
> page and use it either in a website, or a Gnome Atchung! presentation with text 
>to speach by using different XSL style sheets.


well emacspeak is pretty good and a new version came out recently (it's on the cover of Linux Magazine 11 in the uk /plug)
There is also a plug-in to use Festival with Konqueror, maybe this will inspire further development with Festival?

kde has a kde-accessibility list, whilst many of the gnome and sun developers working on accessibility can be found on the Free Desktop Accessibility Working Group list
http://www.speechinfo.org/fdawg/index.html




> The "holy grail" (and a long way off) is natural language 
>interpretation and generation. For the time being, precise terminologies may 
>allow this to be faked up for specialist apps like medical informatics.


a long, long way off. There are other types of interfaces though.

- Richard Smedley
richard@sc.lug.org.uk



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