freddy
7/6/2006 8:11:00 PM
Arun wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to Ruby and to Linux, but not to programming. I teach blind
> people how to program in New Delhi, and it saddens me that they all use
> MS Windows. I teach them Visual Basic version 6, which is far more
> accessible to the blind than later versions, but that is another story.
>
> Anyway, in looking for a programming environment well suited to Linux,
> I examined Ruby, and loved it. Now, of course, for a blind person,
> audio is as important as the screen is for the sighted, and even to do
> your first "Hello World" program, you need text to speech to be
> working.
>
> I'm running Ubunty Breezy, and have Gnopernicus installed, but in the
> terminal window, it only reads out part of what is needed: program
> output is ignored. I'm therefore wondering how I might access text to
> speech in Ruby, preferably in a manner that works independent of what
> kind of Linux is installed. I was unable to get Emacspeak to say
> anything, and did not have much joy trying to get it to compile and
> debug Ruby code.
>
> Ideas or thoughts related to any of the above would be highly
festival might be what you are looking for:
(on ubuntu it will install by 'sudo apt-get install festival')
I have no experience with it though, so it ís just an idea.
/freddy