Odd Notes on Software For the Blind or Partially Sighted From: Alan W Black I distribute a free (for non-commercial use) speech synthesizer for FreeBSD (and most Unix machines) http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html Our system simply requires a standard sound card (8 bit or 16 bit). The synthesis is all in software, but he'll need more than just a synthesizer, he'll need the front end too. I suggest you look at the Linux Blind User Group who are one on my mirror sites. That seems to be the best place to start http://leb.net/blinux/ As I'm sure you know the code for Linux and FreeBSD is pretty similar. Alan W Black email: awb_ERASE@cstr.ed.ac.uk Centre for Speech Technology Research http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/~awb University of Edinburgh tel: (44) 131 650 2787 80 South Bridge, Edinburgh, UK fax: (44) 131 650 6351 ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux/ & http://leb.net/blinux/ FreeBSD ports/audio/rsynth is a text->speech synthesizer. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/raman/emacspeak/emacspeak.html Maybe window(1) or GNU screen to communicate with speech synthesis Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.answers Subject: Linux Access HOWTO (part 1/1) From: Jim Van Zandt Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.answers Subject: Linux Emacspeak HOWTO (part 1/1) This document describes how a blind user can use Linux with a speech synthesizer to replace the video display. REDTHUNDER I am the totally blind system administrator who was trying to install freebsd from a remote serial terminal. [conclusion: can't. jkh made it graphical, didnt occur to him not to]