[Fwd: Blind Computer Users and others! Speak Pup RC1 available.]

Hans Zoebelein hzoebelein at gmail.com
Sat Oct 18 23:43:35 UTC 2008



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Blind Computer Users and others! Speak Pup RC1 available.
Date: 	Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:27:29 -0500
From: 	David Ring <n1ea at arrl.net>
To: 	blindcooltech at gmail.com, "The BlindTechs Network" 
<info at theblindtechsnetwork.com>, "Hans Zoebelein" <hzo at arcor.de>, 
info at carroll.org, info at perkins.org, ais at lighthouse-sf.org



Blind Users: Talking Linux Command Line Driven Distro - web mail chat
music scanning ocr and more

Speak-Pup RC1 is being uploaded to File Factory, as this is being
written.  I tried to get it up on puppylinux.ca but the connections
was refused by the server.  i'll try again later and then File Factory
can be used as an alternative.

The Line up is as follows

Base Operating System................................................Puppy
4.1 retro

bc-1.06.95.pet................................................................calculator
cdp-0.33.13.pet..............................................................cd
player
cdw-0.2.4.pet.................................................................cd
writer
ctorrent-dnh3.3.pet........................................................torrent
client
e3-2.7.0-1.pet................................................................text
processor
ncurses-5.6.pet..............................................................ncurses
libraries
sane-backends-1.0.19.pet.............................................scanner
programs
gocr.pup...................................................................Optical
Character Reader
MOC.............................................................................MP3
player
yafc.pet.........................................................................FTP
client
ytree.pet........................................................................filemanager
index.zip.......................................................................flat
filer
irssi.x.pet......................................................................irc
chat client
java1506.pup................................................................java
freetts...........................................................................speech
engine
yasr..............................................................................screen
reader
brltty-3.10......................................................................soft
brailler
clacct...........................................................Command
Line Accountant
aspell...........................................................................spell
checker
alpine 2.00.pet.............................................................email
client
links-2.2.0....................................................................text
web browser
firelog...........................................................................Internet
Utilities
Simplebashbu...............................................................Backup
script
various scripts to handle menus, scanning, gocr, and voip.

Okay, the file is uploaded at:

[url]http://www.filefactory.com/file/7cb208/n/speakpuprc1.iso[/url]

MD5SUM = 5051d8937f3dc23bc5bf835146b8ed57         speakpuprc1.iso

This thing needs to be run into the ground.  Partucularily if there
are groups interested in the thing.  What works, what doesn't work,
what could have been done better.

Areas of interest:

--improving the voice

-----could you live with it if that was all you had to guide you.

-----Does listening to it with the programs drive you up the wall

--Alpine 2.00

----This version is supposed to work with Gmail.

--Scanning and Optical Character Recognition

----Do the scripts work?

--IRC Chat

----I've listened to yasr, freetts and irssi.  I think it's the best
I've found yet.  What do you think?

--pjsua--How could it be made as fuctional as possible?

--Anything and everything.




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