Eric and Discussion of CHIRP, For those who have vision problems including blindness, I heartily recommend SLINT based on Slackware. SLINT stands for SLackware INTernational and it supports many languages and it is the most accessible distribution I know of. There are several speech systems supported, and IBM Text to Speech - VOXIN - is supported even though VOXIN must be purchased for $5.00 per language from oralux.org a non-profit group.
CHIRP and other ham radio programs are available for SLINT. I'm using SLINT right now. 73 DR N1EA On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 1:13 PM Eric Oyen via chirp_users < chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote: > Actually, that is not a bad idea all things considered. An open API that > is standard regardless of OS would make life a lot easier for both the > coders and users. Unfortunately, try convincing both Apple and Microsoft of > this. Perhaps something like the UEFI consortium might work to get this to > happen. > > DE n7zzt Eric > > > On Feb 21, 2021, at 9:14 AM, Chuck Hast <kp4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think that this is one that the proprietary folks could take a > lesson from Open Source, I know several people who use > Chirp on Linux for the open screen reader interface. I think it > is time that those two groups stump up and write code that > will use the open API rather than force the Chirp coders to > code for their proprietary interfaces. They have enough on > their plates keeping up with all of the other stuff. Knowing > that I have vision limited friends who happily use Linux for > the screen reader interface nulls that whole Chirp should > meet MS/Apple API's. Sorry but they either need to cut > bait or get off the dock. > > >
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