Re: talking grub?

Re: talking grub?

[Andrei Borzenkov]

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

Re: talking grub?

[Michel Hermier]

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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
>
> _______________________________________________
> Grub-devel mailing list
> Grub-devel@gnu.org
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
>

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Re: talking grub?

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

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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
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Grub-devel mailing list
>> Grub-devel@gnu.org
>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Grub-devel mailing list
> Grub-devel@gnu.org
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
>

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Re: talking grub?

[Michael Zimmermann]

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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
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Grub-devel mailing list
>>> Grub-devel@gnu.org
>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Grub-devel mailing list
>> Grub-devel@gnu.org
>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Grub-devel mailing list
> Grub-devel@gnu.org
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
>
>

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