From hzo at gmx.de Fri Jun 11 06:07:23 2004 From: hzo at gmx.de (Hans Zoebelein) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 08:07:23 +0200 (CEST) Subject: ANNOUNCE: yatm-0.2 [Ogg Vorbis support] (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:43:27 +0200 From: Mario Lang Subject: ANNOUNCE: yatm-0.2 [Ogg Vorbis support] Hi. I'm pleased to announce version 0.2 of yet another time machine which adds support for playing Ogg vorbis (.ogg) files. Seeking does not yet work for .ogg, but this is coming in one of the 0.2.x releases. Grab 0.2 from http://delysid.org/yatm-0.2.tar.gz If I can keep up with this fast pace of getting stuff done, you might be interested in watching http://delysid.org/ChangeLog.html for further announcements. -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer | Get my public key via finger mlang at db.debian.org | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 From dave at mielke.cc Sat Jun 12 20:21:36 2004 From: dave at mielke.cc (Dave Mielke) Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:21:36 -0400 Subject: BRLTTY 3.5 has been released. Message-ID: <20040612202136.GU2130@alpha.private.mielke.cc> Release 3.5 of BRLTTY and release 0.2.0 of BrlAPI are now available. They can be downloaded from BRLTTY's web site, which is at: http://mielke.cc/brltty/ The highlights of this release are: * USB support has been added to the Alva driver. * USB support has been added to the HandyTech driver. * Support for the Braille Lite M20 has been added. * A driver for the Focus and PAC Mate displays from Freedom Scientific has been added. * A driver for the Albatross display from Tivomatic has been added. * A driver for the Mikropuhe text-to-speech engine has been added. * The EuroBraille driver has been enhanced. * The VisioBraille driver has been enhanced. * The Voyager driver has been rewritten to run in user-space, thereby becoming portable to all platforms which support USB. * Support has been added for the Voyager Plus Box. * All translation tables (text and attributes) have been converted from binary to easily editable text. * A translation table for Finnish braille has been added. * A translation table for ISO-01 French braille has been added. * A translation table for reading BRF files has been added. * A contraction table for unified French braille has been added. * The big5 braille table has been enhanced. * The key/bar bindings for the EL displays from Papenmeier have been improved. * The key bindings for the Satellite displays from Alva have been improved. * The Braille Firmness setting has been added to the preferences menu and is supported by the Alva Satellite, the Freedom Scientific Focus and PAC Mate, and the Tieman Voyager. * The autorepeat settings have been added to the preferences menu and are supported by the Alva, FreedomScientific, HandyTech, Papenmeier, and Voyager drivers. * The speech rate setting has been added to the preferences menu and is supported by the Festival, FestivalLite, Mikropuhe, Theta, and ViaVoice drivers. * The speech volume setting has been added to the preferences menu and is supported by the Mikropuhe, Theta, and ViaVoice drivers. * The autospeak feature now responds to keyboard input and to cursor motion. * Support for the FreeBSD operating system has been added. * Default braille, speech, and screen driver parameters, as well as API parameters, can now be specified at build time. * Braille and speech driver parameters can now be qualified by a driver code. * Contraction table rules (after, before, begmidword, class, prfword) have been added. * Alert tunes for cursor routing (start, finish, failure) have been added. * The Papenmeier driver configuration file now uses real switch and key names. * The routing keys, when on a numeric item within the preferences menu, now work like a scroll bar. * A speech pass-through FIFO can be specified so that other applications can share BRLTTY's speech driver. * The --with-text-table= and --with-attributes-table= build options now accept an absolute path outside the build tree. * Several enhancements to the API have been made. * A script (rhmkiso) to add BRLTTY to Red Hat and Fedora Core CD images has been added. This release contains many smaller enhancements as well. You can review a complete summary of them by reading the ChangeLog (either in the Documents subdirectory of BRLTTY's source tree or from the Documentation page of BRLTTY's web site). If you're up to it, you can read all the gruesome details by inspecting the transaction log of BRLTTY's source repository. Please upgrade to this new release, brltty-3.5, and give us your feedback. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me EMail: dave at mielke.cc | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concerned about Hell. http://familyradio.com/ | http://mielke.cc/bible/ From hzo at gmx.de Fri Jun 25 12:19:18 2004 From: hzo at gmx.de (Hans Zoebelein) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:19:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Project from NY Talking Book and Braille Library (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:27:24 -0400 From: david poehlman Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion To: blinux list Subject: Fw: CURR: Project from NY Talking Book and Braille Library ----- Original Message ----- From: "Catherine Alfieri" To: Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 1:12 PM Subject: CURR: Project from NY Talking Book and Braille Library Dear Web Braille Subscriber: The New York State Library's Talking Book and Braille Library (TBBL) and Bookshare.org (Bookshare) invite you to take part in an exciting new, free-to-you, one-year pilot project limited to 100 TBBL patrons who are not now members of Bookshare. Goals of the Pilot Project: TBBL and Bookshare want to provide a wider range of digital books to TBBL patrons while learning how Bookshare can work to provide access to you. For this, we need your feedback. TBBL needs feedback from you on the sign up process and usability, as well as any suggestions you may have that would help make Bookshare a stronger resource for libraries and their patrons. In return, TBBL and Bookshare are offering, free-to-you, one year of unlimited access to Bookshare's books and services. Criteria: A. Must be a TBBL patron B. Not a Bookshare member at the present time. C. Must be age 18 or over D. Must have access to a computer and the Internet. E. Must have computer skills necessary to browse the web, install Bookshare utilities, and download books. If you are comfortable filling out online forms or making purchases over the Internet, you'll be comfortable using Bookshare. Bookshare Books and How They May be Read: The majority of books from Bookshare are created by scanning so they contain the full text but no pre-recorded human voice. They are all rated for quality to indicate the level of proofreading after scanning. More than two-thirds of the books have the top quality rating indicating almost no errors. Bookshare has over 17,000 books and adds several hundred each month to the collection, largely through efforts of volunteer scanners. Bookshare books can be read using almost any assistive technology that users may already have and be comfortable with, so long as it supports reading text-based documents. You may also listen to the books from Bookshare using the Bookshare Edition of the Victor Reader Soft DAISY reader, provided with membership. Alternatively, you may read the book with a screen magnifier or in braille format with a portable braille reader or refreshable braille display. You may request a cd containing Bookshare utilities. How it Works: if you want to become a member of this free pilot project, please contact me by July 15th via email at tmurphy at mail.nysed.gov or phone at 518-474-5957. Your first name, last name, home address, and email address will be submitted to Bookshare. You will then receive a welcome message with a password and a link to the registration form. Once you are registered, you will be entitled to all the services of a Bookshare subscriber for one year. Referrals: Do you know a TBBL patron who is not a Bookshare member and would like to be? Please ask that person to call me by July 15th and let me know of his/her interest. If there are still memberships open in this limited pilot project, TBBL will be happy to include this patron. If you have any questions or need additional information, please send me an email at tmurphy at mail.nysed.gov or call at 518-474-5957. Tina 518-474-5957 New York State Talking Book and Braille Library Email: tmurphy at mail.nysed.gov -- Ann K. Parsons email: akp at eznet.net WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT _______________________________________________ Abvi-Consumers mailing list Abvi-Consumers at enabling.org http://enabling.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/abvi-consumers ------------------------------------------------------------- See EASI Special October Bonus offer at http://easi.cc/clinic.htm EASI November courses are: Barrier-free E-learning, Accessible Internet Multimedia and Business Benefits of Accessible IT Design: http://easi.cc/workshop.htm EASI Home Page http://www.rit.edu/~easi