Hello Joseph,
Thank you for the very detailed instructions - that's exactly what I was
planning to test today, but it seems you did all the work already. To
keep it short for other readers of this list, here's how it works:
1. FreeDOS must be installed inside a virtualization solution (I used
VirtualBox, Joseph used VMWare Player)
2. FreeDOS must hae a screen reader installed (Joseph chose ASAP, while
I was experimenting with PROVOX and JAWS)
3. The screen reader must be set to "Braille 'n Speak" mode and COM1
4. In the hypervizor properties, COM1 must be redirected to a virtual
port: under Windows this can apparently be done with "Com0Com"
5. On the host OS, a Braille 'n Speak emulator needs to be installed and
made to listen over the virtual port. The emulator is named "vbns" and
is available in two flavors: one that uses eSpeak as its TTS backed, and
another one that relies on the native Windows SAPI
Joseph, the only "non-free" part of your setup is the ASAP software.
Have you, by any chance, fiddled with PROVOX? It's a DOS screen reader
that was open-sourced under GPL2, and it seems to support Braille 'n
Speak (called "BNS" in the program). If that would be a valid option,
it's something that could be added to FreeDOS.
Mateusz
On 16/03/2020 03:59, joseph.nor...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Felix:
Since you’re usig DOSBox, and the description of your setup, I think you
have everything you need to run FreeDOS.
If you want to try it, you can get VMWare Player for free and install it.
I put together a version of FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 a couple months ago. Here
is the instruction files I posted back then.
If you’re using the Talking DOSBox package, I believe it is configured
for com9 as one of the ports. If that’s the case, just substitute com9
for the reference to com3. Anyway, here is the instructions file I put
together along with links that should get you on the way. You probably
don’t need to download com0com or the virtual Braille ‘n speak program,
but, it just depends on what you want.
Reply to me off-list at:
joseph.nor...@gmail.com <mailto:joseph.nor...@gmail.com>
if you have any questions:
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