I could have used this a month ago when I had elbow surgery and was looking for better ways to access my computer that were not really expensive and did not require me to upgrade my system software.
Still interested. Cindy Anderson From: "Allan E. Registos" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: Discussion of accessibility on the OLPC <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Monday, January 7, 2013 6:19 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [laptop-accessibility] just a test... On Tuesday, 08 January, 2013 08:06 AM, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 07:03:52AM +0800, Allan E. Registos wrote: Hi. hi! according to your email and TZ, you are from somewhere in the Phils, if I'm not mistaken. my wife was born there. [ just intro. chatter. ] Yes I am, I am from Davao. about ten years ago when I was at a local hospital here in Seattle, the speech therapist showed me a Windoze box with a touch keyboard, batteries, and speaker. I only have one working hand and could barely heft the thing. it was difficult to use even tho I have been using a typewriter or computer keyboard since my youth. my thoughts then were that with a little hacking, I could buy a smallish laptop and develop a graphic tool for the speech- disabled {or mute}. the affected person would listen to his friend(s) who were talking, and reply by having the computer be his voice. That would be a great tool/software for people with speech disability if you intend to release it to the public. I was already laid-off from a work injury and going to school in a completely different field, so I never did anything except outline my plans and continue with my schooling. ---The nutshell of the story is that given 6+ month hacking in C and teaching myself gtk ---AND having lots of help with the gtk suite, I recently completed my project. VBC {Voice-by-Computer} requires espeak, gtk, and vim/gvim. But it does essentially what I thought of those years ago--2003 or '04 or '05--whatever it was. I talked to some hacker at Galluadet University who was volunteering his time of the "one child per computer" project; I also talked to another person or two. This was around '07 or '08; there was definite interest in my project. I promised to get back in touch when/if I ever finished the project. It's done. I dont know what version--possibly 0.20 to 0.35. It works. You can release it with a free license and start a campaign to raise funds for continued development. VBC runs on any Unix/linux/android--[i think android] tablet. I have run this domain, thought.org, for over 25 years and gone thru dozens of used and homebrew hardware; I have suffered many crashes; recent ones cost me former email backups. So I have lost my record of who I was emailing at laptop.org. I recommend you use google apps for non-profits. google.com/apps so that you can retain your domain(thought.org) and stop worrying of having email backups. I think it is free of up to 10 users. Need help. thanks much! gary kline ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Kline" <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> To: "Accessibility Laptop List" <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 6:58:30 AM Subject: [laptop-accessibility] just a test... just a test. is anyone at the other end of this list? I have a major CopyLeft program to announce. -- Gary Kline [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community. _______________________________________________ accessibility mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility _______________________________________________ accessibility mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility _______________________________________________ accessibility mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility
