Re: Things to cover in my bits from the DPL talk at Debconf

2019-07-12 Thread Sam Hartman
So, to be clear, I was asking for a few bullet points (or at most a few slides) community wide. We now seem to have gotten to three demos and a discussion of what isn't working well focused entirely on accessibility. Accessibility is great, and if there are one or two successes or challenges in B

Re: Things to cover in my bits from the DPL talk at Debconf

2019-07-12 Thread Devin Prater
Along with the good, I’d also talk about the not so good, inaccessibility of QT apps, like Rosegarden, and even CLI applications, like RTV, and Gnu Typist, and the complexity of setting up CLI apps which can be made accessible, like Mutt, VIM, and Alpine. I’d also demonstrate Emacs with Emacspe

Re: Things to cover in my bits from the DPL talk at Debconf

2019-07-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, To the list: feel free to propose ideas, I guess Cindy will sort it out :) Cindy Sue Causey, le mer. 10 juil. 2019 01:28:07 -0400, a ecrit: > On 7/8/19, Sam Hartman wrote: > > But I'd also like to showcase our community and interesting things that > > have happened over the last year. >

Re: Things to cover in my bits from the DPL talk at Debconf

2019-07-10 Thread Fernando Botelho
Well, that makes sense. We just haven’t had the time to spread the word. Time for official launch is September. Fernando (Written with dictation software) > On Jul 10, 2019, at 1:08 PM, Shérab wrote: > > Hi, > > Fernando Botelho (2019/07/10 10:19 -0300): >> Yes, as I said on my initial r

Re: Things to cover in my bits from the DPL talk at Debconf

2019-07-10 Thread Shérab
Hi, Fernando Botelho (2019/07/10 10:19 -0300): > Yes, as I said on my initial response, the fact that our project uses > Arch Linux might be the main reason why my talk got rejected. Not the fact that your project uses Arch Linux. Rather, the fact that it is not _also_ supported by Debian. Well j

Re: Things to cover in my bits from the DPL talk at Debconf

2019-07-10 Thread Fernando Botelho
Yes, as I said on my initial response, the fact that our project uses Arch Linux might be the main reason why my talk got rejected. But making a new speech synthesizer is no walk in the park, and it does not happen every day, particularly for languages from developing countries. Since one has be

Re: Things to cover in my bits from the DPL talk at Debconf

2019-07-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Fernando Botelho, le mer. 10 juil. 2019 10:19:29 -0300, a ecrit: > making a new speech synthesizer is no walk in the park, [...] one has > been made by a small company from the very city where you guys will > have your event; I thought it was worth mentioning. Ah, I hadn't realized it was from the

Re: Things to cover in my bits from the DPL talk at Debconf

2019-07-10 Thread Fernando Botelho
We have not yet launched officially, so I doubt that the Portuguese version is. But RHVoice might be. It is already use for Russian, English, and a few other languages. Fernando (Written with dictation software) > On Jul 10, 2019, at 10:02 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > Fernan

Re: Things to cover in my bits from the DPL talk at Debconf

2019-07-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Fernando Botelho, le mer. 10 juil. 2019 10:05:44 -0300, a ecrit: > We have not yet launched officially, so I doubt that the Portuguese version > is. But RHVoice might be. It is already use for Russian, English, and a few > other languages. Ok. I just mean that since it's not part of Debian, it i

Re: Things to cover in my bits from the DPL talk at Debconf

2019-07-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Fernando Botelho, le mer. 10 juil. 2019 09:44:22 -0300, a ecrit: > 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 co

Re: Things to cover in my bits from the DPL talk at Debconf

2019-07-10 Thread Fernando Botelho
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 f

Re: Things to cover in my bits from the DPL talk at Debconf

2019-07-09 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
Hi.. I'm temporarily adding this to Debian-Accessibility and *waving* at Samuel and everyone as I do.. On 7/8/19, Sam Hartman 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 f