Hi Liam,
I do not recall sending abuse to you privately. Of course abuse, like
offense is often and largely an experience chosen by the person taking
offense, speaking personally.
I truly respect your personal experience of course.
My point here though is there where the human body, medical d
On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 at 13:24, Mateusz Viste via Freedos-user
wrote:
> One of them is the "BNS Build". This one comes with the
> Provox screen reader enabled during installation and is then installed
> along with the core SvarDOS packages.
Thanks for the clarification.
--
Liam Proven ~ Profil
On 22/11/2024 14:01, Liam Proven via Freedos-user wrote:
I am just beginning to explore SvarDOS but as far as I can tell it
does not have a screenreader of any kind, no.
On the main page of the SvarDOS website there are 3 builds of the OS
available. One of them is the "BNS Build". This one com
On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 at 18:38, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
wrote:
> I wish to break this down a bit, and correct some misconceptions.
I will regret this. The last time I replied to you, you responded by
sending abusive messages to my personal inbox. Do not do so again or I
will be forced to
Hi,
I did not get any lag from your sample. Latency speaking personally tends
to be a Linux kind of thing.
Confused by your comment though.
that 18% are the ones who as you believed wearing a blindfold matched..in
total darkness. the majority, myself included, certainly have never
known that
On 20/11/2024 05:00, Karen Lewellen wrote:
No matter how well intention, for the sake of the scientists and
engineers living in that 18% arena, please do not project that test of
yours on to another human being.
The 18% are very welcome to set up a DOS VM on a Linux host with emubns
and Pipe
Hi Mateusz
I am only going to speak to one point at the moment.
I will resist pointing out some considerable confusion by the above statement,
simply asking why you believe this is true?
I tried at several occasions to use a computer being blindfolded. I am able to
create a simple text fi
Hello Karen, see my answers below. This might not be the best place for this
topic, though. I wouldn't want to annoy the list, especially since it is not
strictly FreeDOS related. If you'd like to take this offlist, or would know a
more appropriate list or forum, I'd be happy to oblige.
>Firs
Hi mMateusz,
I wish to break this down a bit, and correct some misconceptions.
Especially given the potential, along with what others shared about
getting a pie to do what is needful.
see my questions in context.
On Tue, 19 Nov 2024, Mateusz Viste via
Freedos-user wrote:
I had describe
Hi Karen,
I had described my setup already a couple of weeks ago I think. I used
my BNS emulator, emubns, and connected it to a virtual machine running
SvarDOS. The SvarDOS system has a screen reader that outputs speech in
the BNS format. This BNS speech is received by emubns, who relays it fo
Hi Mateusz,
Finally had a moment to check out your piper in DOS sample.
If I am forthright, that was frankly stunning.
granted, I imagine many factors impacted that sound quality, but I have
questions about your process, both how it differs because Piper is in
Linux and what you used for t
No they aren't. Most raspberry pi computers are considerably less than
100 bucks.
You can order a pi4 with 1GB of ram for just $35 from digikey, and a pi4
with 8GB of ram for $75 from adafruit. Obviously the ones with 2GB and
4GB are going to priced in between these two extremes. The over 1
How do you use a keyboard with it?
You cannot. The Pi Pico is not a full computer
for desktop use. As said, the smallest Pi which
can be used as a full computer is the Pi Zero:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w/
It has USB, Wifi, Bluetooth and HDMI, but only 0.5 GB
How do you use a keyboard with it?
Karen
On Fri, 18 Oct 2024, G.W. Haywood via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi there,
On Thu, 17 Oct 2024, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote:
...
You can get Raspbarry Pi and similar computers for less
than 100 USD ...
You can get them for less than 5 USD:
http
Hi Ged,
You can get Raspbarry Pi and similar computers for less
than 100 USD ...
You can get them for less than 5 USD:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-pico/
While those are from the same brand, they are not
from the same category: A Pi Pico lets you control
a few electro
Hi there,
On Thu, 17 Oct 2024, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote:
...
You can get Raspbarry Pi and similar computers for less
than 100 USD ...
You can get them for less than 5 USD:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-pico/
I have several of the 'Pi Zero' which were less than 10
Hi!
As you asked about Raspberry Pi: Those are a popular variant
of so-called single-board computers. In a way, they are a
by-product of smartphone technology. They combine a full
computer with USB, LAN and HDMI ports on a circuit board
the size of a smartphone. They do not have phone features.
On 17/10/2024 18:03, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Others can speak to how available these Raspberry pie things are world
wide, how easy to configure independently, I take it no software is
needed to run them?
A Raspberry Pi is a cheap computer the size of a large box of matches.
Instead of a hard d
Hi,
Glad the guide came through, I got a message stating the post needed
approval.
While your YouTube link was a personal closed door, google's removing
basic
html access being part of the reason, your second link let me get the audio
file for download.
Others can speak to how available these
On 17/10/2024 00:22, Karen Lewellen wrote:
I have never run provox, but have a copy. Let me see if there is a
users guide to share.
Thanks for sharing. It appears provox have a few different modes for
processing punctuation. These can be switched with slash-F5.
I would personally apprecia
Hi Mateusz,
The ability to adjust how much, or how little one wishes to hear things
like punctuation marks and keystrokes is the hallmark of a properly
developed screen reader.
Most of the better DOS programs allow for this, with associated drivers
written for the synthesizers adding human ri
On 15/10/2024 17:12, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote:
Other factor speaking personally with espeak is the largely poor speech
quality.
I experimented a bit with emubns today. Ended up using "piper" instead
of espeak. The speech quality is outstanding now, almost lifelike. I was
able to
Hi Lawrence,
You shared that you got freedos working with orca.
What specific DOS programs did you test with that setup?
Karen
On Tue, 15 Oct 2024, Lawrence Perez via Freedos-user wrote:
Hello,
On a previous thread I discussed that I was able to get FreeDOS working under
QEMU with Orca. I
Hello,
On a previous thread I discussed that I was able to get FreeDOS working under
QEMU with Orca. I believe this would be a good alternative if we can’t get
DOSEMU2 working under Linux. I imagine that Espeakup would work due to the
-nographic QEMU option that sends output to a terminal. I ha
Hey, that's not a bad idea Lawrence. E-speak up could probably still
work with Dos emu under Arch. It doesn't work on the newer version of
Slint for some reason. It would be ideal to have a boot disk that would
come up talking like Linux does. Maybe your thought of using Linux could
work. Someo
Hello,
I'm not a developer, but I believe there may be some complications with getting
a software speech synthesizer to work. Most DOS systems are designed to be
16-bit, whereas modern software speech synthesizers typically run on 32-bit or
64-bit, or even, in the case of Raspberry Pi computers
Other factor speaking personally with espeak is the largely poor speech
quality.
There is an effort to get copyright clearance for one of the dectalk
software speech sources.
I have no idea what the pi would provide speech wise, nor the cost factor.
Still, there are dectalk USB units available a
Thanks! I'll have a look at this.
On 10/15/2024 6:36 AM, Mateusz Viste via Freedos-user wrote:
On 14/10/2024 17:37, Mike Coulombe via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi, That distro sounds interesting, but I need to run free dos on
different computers. If it had speech accessibility free dos would be
very
On 14/10/2024 17:37, Mike Coulombe via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi, That distro sounds interesting, but I need to run free dos on
different computers. If it had speech accessibility free dos would be
very useful to blind people world wide considering all the free dos
programs you can get and the amo
I'm not sure about porting espeak to dos, I'd be inclined to believe it
would take a heck of a lot of work if it's even possible, since for the
most part, it depends on linux api calls and kernel functions to do most
of it's work. Not to say it couldn't be done, but it wuld be a quite
differen
Hi Lawrence,
I have a serious Linux friend wanting to do this comparatively. not with
orca, but another Linux tool.
does your process extend to command line Linux?
Karen
On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, Lawrence Perez via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi,
Do you plan to run FreeDOS directly on computer hardware
Hi Mike,
I am not a personal fan of bottom posting, but will do so in this case..so
see below your own question for my answers smiles.
On Sun, 13 Oct 2024, Mike Coulombe via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi, if this isn't the correct list for this question please let me know which
list I should try.
Hi, That distro sounds interesting, but I need to run free dos on
different computers. If it had speech accessibility free dos would be
very useful to blind people world wide considering all the free dos
programs you can get and the amount of old computers many of can be had
for free or next to
Hi,
Do you plan to run FreeDOS directly on computer hardware, or in a virtual
machine? I've had success with getting FreeDOS to work within QEMU in terminal
only mode, allowing you to use a modern screen reader, such as Orca on Linux,
but it could probably work on MacOS and VoiceOver. Not sure
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
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
hav
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