[JDEV] Accessability for the Impaired

[Ajay Garg]

I would be interested in knowing which Voice Rec engine you are using.

Thanks
> 
>  
> > For the blind, some sort of voice command and dictation software
> should 
> > be built in, or at least allow third-party voice software to use
> the 
> > Jabber client. I am unaware of what voice systems are common on 
> > computers for the blind, anyone know? I would assume they would be 
> > designed to work with any application built for that voice system.
> Not 
> > only is it important to be voice dictation friendly by allowing the
> user
> > to "speak" the IM messages and have them read off to them from the
> text,
> > but also for the client to have "voice bindings" for commands such
> as 
> > creating messages, editing prefernces, and other typically
> GUI-based 
> > actions.
> 
> 
> I've been working with open source systems sphinx2(speech in) and
> festival
> (speech out). I've thought about making a jabber client using these.
> It is
> hard to get myself to write it because personaly I don't think I
> would use
> it(as I'm not blind). If I ever get something written I'll be sure to
> let
> someone know, but for those that want to take up the challenge.
> 
> Sphinx: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/
> Festival: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
> 
> Sphinx would be perfect to handle the commands, such as "Jabber Send
> Message To Contact Five".  It picks up words from a list. It wouldn't
> work
> well to type out messages from voice, as its vocabulary is
> limited.
> 
> Festival would work good to read messages sent to them by others.
> 
> I've been working on some voice command stuff with sphinx and perl, I
> would be willing to send in patches from time to time but not startup
> and
> be a main developer of such a project.
> 
> I just wanted to point some options that are availible to someone
> working
> on this. Is anyone on the list familar with common software used by
> the
> blind, or is there such a thing?
> 
> 
> 
> Russell Valentine
> 
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Ajay K Garg
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