Re: talking grub?

[Michael Zimmermann <sigmaepsilon92@gmail.com>]

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> audio, is not as difficult as it sounds
thx for this sentence :P
but now back on topic, accessibility sounds like an important feature.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <
phcoder@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a WIP port of brltty but little time to finish it. If someone is
> willing to take over, it's in a separate git branch.
> As for audio, is not as difficult as it sounds. Morse was actually a
> prototype for it. We don't need full synthesis. We can prerecord common
> sentences and just tell letter by letter  when we don't have it
> prerecorded. It's not optimal but good enough to solve most of the cases
>
> Le ven. 29 avr. 2016 21:07, Michel Hermier <michel.hermier@gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> Hi,
>> Considering the complexity of voice generation, maybe it would be more
>> simple to support braille displays which should be less complex to
>> implement. Not speaking that most blind people using computers should have
>> one I guess, since it sounds more productive to me.
>> My 2 cents to the subject.
>> Cheers,
>>    Michel
>> Le 29 avr. 2016 10:34, "Andrei Borzenkov" <arvidjaar@gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>>> Hi Majid,
>>>
>>> currently grub includes audio output driver that outputs morse codes
>>> for characters and digits using built-in PC speaker. I am not aware of
>>> anyone working on full scale speech synthesizer, but I forward your
>>> mail to grub-devel for attention.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 9:06 PM, Majid Hussain <mhussaincov93@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > hello there,
>>> > My name is majid hussain,
>>> > i'm blind.
>>> > would it be possable to have grub talk?
>>> > it would be very useful for me and the blind community who use linux
>>> > if this was possable.
>>> > it would make the boot menu accessible for instance :)
>>> >
>>> > i'm not sure how this could be done, but would be grateful if it could
>>> > be looked in to?
>>> > thank you for considdering my request and thank you for grub :)
>>> >
>>> > thank you for reading :)
>>> > Majid Hussain
>>>
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