"Emacspeak is a speech interface that allows visually impaired users to interact independently and efficiently with the computer. Audio formatting --a technique pioneered by AsTeR-- and full support for W3C's Aural CSS (ACSS) allows Emacspeak to produce rich aural presentations of electronic information. By seamlessly blending all aspects of the Internet such as Web-surfing and messaging, Emacspeak speech-enables local and remote information via a consistent and well-integrated user interface."
"EFlite is a speech server for Emacspeak and other screen readers that allows them to interface with Festival Lite, a free text-to-speech engine developed at the CMU Speech Center as an off-shoot of Festival." Combining the two, we get an audio desktop for OpenBSD that doesn't require a hardware synthesizer. I was hoping to make this as simple as possible, so that people could just pkg_add and get started, but the license restrictions on festival lite mean that it has to be built from ports. What I ended up with (I hope) is still fairly simple. With these two ports added it should be a matter of doing 'sudo make install' in emacspeak, sleeping a few hours while flite builds, then launching it with the command 'emacspeak'. :) http://deanna.freeshell.org/eflite.tar.gz http://deanna.freeshell.org/emacspeak.tar.gz
