Dark, Darren, Thomas, et al. Thomas is right about Carnagie Mellon's FreeTTS being totally cross-platform. I've had it working on Windows, Red Hat Linux, and OS / X. The voice "Kevin", as in one of the guys who built FreeTTS, sounds like Robbie the Robot on acid, but he notes in his release notes that at least it's free. I believe that better voice extensions are available from the University of Edinburgh, but not for commercial use.
And no, very little is written for programmers about accessibility. O'Reilly's Java Swing book has a good section on nuts and bolts. Some of the software usability literature includes accessibility issues. Sounds like an opportunity for someone to write a book on multimodal user interfaces. I know the fellow here in Massachusetts who does the 508 compliance oversight for the state. (We were on his radio show last month. That was fun!) When I see him at this month's Visually Impaired and Blind Users Group meeting, I'll ask him about the state of compliance here. Given the realities of our politics here, however, I suspect not much is really enforced. John Bannick 7-128 Software --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
