- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 10:58:41 +0200
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
At 20:36 4/05/2009, Avi Arditti wrote: >Greetings, > >First, a belated congratulations on WCAG 2.0! (I left the working >group several years ago.) I recently met a blind man in the Russian >Far East who works with young people with disabilities. He was >trying to find ways to obtain computers for them and accessible >technology like screen readers. He only has an early version of >JAWS. Does anyone have any suggestions? There are "RealSpeak Solo Direct Voices for Freedom Scientific Products" <http://www.freedomscientific.com/downloads/RealSpeak-Solo-Direct-Voices/RealSpeak-Solo-Direct-Downloads.asp>, but these require JAWS 10 or later. On Linux, there seems to be an alternative: Orca + eSpeak. In the eSpeak documentation, Russian is currently only listed as a "provisional language" (because of problems with word stress and the disctinction between "hard" and "soft" consonants) <http://espeak.sourceforge.net/languages.html>. I also found a message on the Orca list <http://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2007-October/msg00331.html> where someone pointed to a page about Russian on festival (another open-source TTS): <http://festlang.berlios.de/docu/doku.php?id=russianru>. I hope this helps, but you may be more successful on the WAI-IG list. Best regards, Christophe >Many thanks, >Avi Arditti > -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ --- "Better products and services through end-user empowerment" http://www.usem-net.eu/ --- Please don't invite me to LinkedIn, Facebook, Quechup or other "social networks". You may have agreed to their "privacy policy", but I haven't.
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