[sword-devel] One of those weird ideas....

[peter]

Braille is good - but it relies on presence of a braille terminal - I
understand they are very expensive and not overly comfortable - so many
people rely on screen readers - which in turn will make it hard for us
to find anyone actually testing the programmes.

But I am totally new to this, so I have no clue. I will ask around what
is the most suitable way forward and will come back.

Peter


DM Smith wrote:
> Another weird idea, allow for transliteration into braille. Probably  
> won't give the proper tactile response unless printed to a braille  
> printer.
> 
> On Sep 17, 2007, at 4:51 PM, peter wrote:
> 
>> I am at the moment trying to set up a laptop for a blind member of our
>> church.
>>
>> One of the wonderful things here is obviously the festival support  
>> which
>> comes with gnomesword - Karl, thank you! - which gave me an idea for a
>> new feature - would it be possible for a module to contain sound  
>> files -
>> just as some now contain images?
>>
>> I could imagine a commentary where each sound file is associated to
>> passage coming in really useful for a) for general use associating
>> already recorded sermons, lectures etc to biblical text and b)
>> specifically as a help for the blind.
>>
>> I would think that it should be relatively straight forward (not  
>> being a
>> programmer makes all things appear straight forward :-) ) to have a  
>> link
>>  launch e.g. totem or whatever other pre-existing media player is
>> associated with a particular filetype.
>>
>> The advantages over the existing festival support is the natural voice
>> of a recording, the ability to make use of music etc  and the
>> possibility to import existing taped sermon collections etc. The
>> disadvantage  is obviously the loss of granularity and generality -
>> Festival can read each individual verse and could be used to read  
>> every
>> type of module, irrespective of whether it is recorded or not.
>>
>> Festival is obviously not available for many languages.
>>
>> Peter
>>
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