Re: Talking daisy reader.

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Hi, Thomas:

Really glad to hear that building a DAISY user agent has caught your 
interest.

You might want to contribute to a current effort that's using Java. Take a 
look at:

http://www.amisproject.org

A good first step might be simply porting this application to run on 
GNOME, Linux, etc.


On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Thomas  Ward wrote:

> Well, for the moment I'm just doing basic research, and above all comparing
> apis and languages. Java actually
> seams like the better choice at this point for a variety reasons.
> As you mentioned deployment alone might give me a vary good reason to build
> it in java. The daisy reader could be designed so that it would be platform
> independant and run on Mac, Linux, windows, etc.
> Daisy readers tend to use a web browser such as Internet
> Explorer for html document display etc. Using the  java web client api for
> Mozilla in theory might be able to perform a similar function under Gnome.
> Another good lead is possably using xerces 2.30 from apache for xml parsing.
> It's going to take me a few months to really decide where to go with this,
> but a Daisy reader for  Unix is badly needed by myself and several other
> blind Unix users. Especially, one that supports Daisy 2 and Daisy 3.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Korn" <peter korn sun com>
> To: "Thomas Ward" <slingshooter valkyrie net>
> Cc: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 10:35 AM
> Subject: Re: Talking daisy reader.
> 
> 
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > I think it really depends upon where you want to deploy your Daisy reader.
> > If you only want to see it running on desktop machines in a GNOME
> > environment, then absolutely use gnome-speech.  On the other hand, looking
> > forward to the next two generations of PDA and cell phones, I would expect
> > that we might start seeing phones running J2SE and support the Java Speech
> > API and FreeTTS.
> >
> > Are you in touch with George Kershner on this Daisy project you're
> > considering doing?  If not, I encourage you to contact him and let him
> know
> > what you're thinking.
> >
> >
> > Either way you go, I'm delighted to hear you're looking into this.  It'd
> be
> > very nice to have a Daisy reader on the UNIX desktop.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter Korn
> > Sun Accessibility team
> >
> > > Hi, list. I'm a little at an impass how  I should proceed with a couple
> > > of projects I've been conciddering writing. I've been thinking about
> > > writing a talking daisy reader for gnome, and it has to be self voicing.
> > > I would like to either use C++ with the gnome-speech libraries, or use
> > > Java with  JSAPI, and the FreeTTS synthesizor.
> > > Any suggestions one which might be the better way to go? I have
> > > gnome-speech  built installed, and working, but no api documentation how
> > > to develope with it which sort of puts me at a disadvantage.
> > > If I had my choice per say I'd like to build the app in C/C++ and the
> > > gnome-speech api, but I could in theory go either way.
> > > With so many electronic books  being put out by RFBND, NLS, Book Share,
> > > etc in the daisy 2 and 3 for mats I was hoping to put my free time into
> > > building a reader which would run under Gnome which could read these
> > > electronic text books.
> > > Thanks, for any suggestions.
> > >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina afb net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
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