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- From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: `term' 2.5 -- any suggestions?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.193711.6680@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 19:37:11 GMT
- References: <olsen.5241@sourcery.mxm.sub.org> <1992Nov12.155546.3777@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> <49t1=4a@rpi.edu>
- Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
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- Disclaimer: This posting does not necessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
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- Quoth pooler@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole):
-
- ]> In article <1992Nov12.155546.3777@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999) writes:
-
- ]> >Quoth olsen@sourcery.mxm.sub.org (Olaf Barthel):
- ]> >
- ]> >My roomie is looking for software useful to blind or vision-impaired folks,
- ]> >basically stuff that will use the SPEAK: device (I know, no longer supported
- ]> >but SO WHAT) to process text. It would be nice to have a rexx command or
- ]> >port to enable the simultaneous display of text on screen and the speaking
- ]> >of it out loud.
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- ]> >Jeff Grimmett [SuperBitMap BBS] * fido!1:202/1401.0 [619-460-7290]
-
- ]> I second that motion! I have a professor (my advisor, in fact) who is
- ]> visually impaired, and a terminal program that supports SPEAK: simultaneously
- ]> with other output would be a boon to someone like him. (This professor is
- ]> also an Amiga fan, even has one in his office, so chances are good that he
- ]> would use something like this.)
-
- I've always enjoyed the fact that it was useful in that way. The 2.0 release
- especially, since it was almost intelligable :-)
-
- ]> Incidentally, I have heard a rumor that Commodore screwed up with Amigados 3.0
- ]> -- they didn't deliberately mean to leave narrator.device and
- ]>
- ]> Rob Poole
-
- I have heard a deafening silence from the C= crew over this -- no confirmation,
- no denial, nothing. In a situation like this, I start to lean to the theory
- that there will be a new one, and it will be something built with DSP in
- mind -- after all, why would they neither confirm or deny if they had dropped
- it, or even just muffed it?
-
- Hmmm....
-
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- Jeff Grimmett [SuperBitMap BBS] * fido!1:202/1401.0 [619-460-7290]
- jeff_grimmett@f1401.n202.z1.fidonet.org * jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com
- The opinions expressed in this message are thoughtful, reasoned, and logical.
- It goes without saying that they are not those of my employer.
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