Hi Cindy-Sue, My proposal to present the world’s most affordable talking computer for the blind got rejected, probably because we are using Arch Linux; but you could mention the first good quality speech synthesizer to become available for Linux in Brazilian Portuguese, done by a small little firm in Curitiba, Brazil, in cooperation with RHVoice and others.
We could of course send you a WAV file with a sentence or two, if you like. Best, Fernando (Written with dictation software) > On Jul 10, 2019, at 2:28 AM, Cindy Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi.. I'm temporarily adding this to Debian-Accessibility and *waving* > at Samuel and everyone as I do.. > > >> On 7/8/19, Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> wrote: >> Folks, I'm looking for cool stuff to cover in my keynote at Debconf. >> Obviously, I'll want to cover buster, and stuff I'm working on, and >> challenging issues facing the project. >> >> But I'd also like to showcase our community and interesting things that >> have happened over the last year. >> >> So, I'd especially be interested in elements to work in that have >> interesting pictures, video or sound elements. >> >> So, things like >> >> * Pictures of release testing >> >> * pictures of release parties >> >> * Possibly interesting uses of Debian that have a good visual/brief >> video story >> >> * Because I'm blind if I could find interesting content, I might focus >> more than usual on sound. But if not that's cool too. >> >> Any thoughts are welcome. > > > So, can anyone think of anything about Debian-Accessibility that would > fit into what Sam seeks? MANY people have never, for example, heard a > screenreader in action. I personally have Users with screenreaders in > my thoughts on regular occasion, especially when all that useful > information is zipping by at warp speed on my own screen during > reboots. > > If anyone replies, it's possibly most appropriate to drop > Debian-Accessibility back out of the loop and only reply directly to > Debian-Publicity. > > ONE DISCLAIMER: I don't know if the Debian-Publicity list accepts > posts from non-subscribers.. > > Just thinking out loud.. :) > > PS Afterthought: What about "Hurd"? That just hit my radar in some bit > of chatter or another during the past week: > > Debian GNU/Hurd 2019 released!; 2019.07.07 > https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2019/07/msg00001.html > > Cindy :) > -- > Cindy-Sue Causey > Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA > > * runs with birdseed * >
