Hello list, I remember that Joseph Norton has put together a FreeDOS distro with the ASAP screen reader. However, this will not speak on its own---it sends speech output to COM1, where it expects a hardware speech synthesizer. If you run FreeDOS in a VM you can redirect the guest's COM1 to one end of a virtual COM port pair. Then you have a program read from the other end and feed the data into eSpeak, and voilà, your FreeDOS talks to you. I had the distro lying around somewhere but currently I cannot find it. Shall I keep searching? Best, FG
Am Mo., 14. Okt. 2024 um 12:06 Uhr schrieb G.W. Haywood via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>: > > Hi there, > > On Sun, 13 Oct 2024, Mike Coulombe via Freedos-user wrote: > > > ... I'm visually impaired and would like to use free dos. > > My vision is good but I'm chiming in now in case others take longer to > get to your message. > > I believe a number of people on this list are visually impaired and I > have seen but not followed discussions about screen readers here. > > If you're able to find and search the archives of the list you might > find things which ineterest you. There's an archive here > > https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/freedos-user/ > > but I have no idea how it performs for a visually impaired person. > If it's no use to you I'd be glad to do a few searches for you. > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
