Saturday, March 20, 2010

programs to use

bc-1.06.95.pet.................calaculator
cdp-0.33.13.pet................cd player
cdw-0.2.4.pet..................cd writer
ctorrent-dnh3.3.pet............torrent client
e3-2.7.0-1.pet.................text processor
dotpuphandler-0.0.4-2.pet......dotpup installer
ncurses-5.6.pet................ncurses libraries
sane-backends-1.0.19.pet.......scanner programs
gocr.pup.......................Optical Character Reader
herrie.pet.....................MP3 player
yafc.pet.......................FTP client
ytree.pet......................filemanager
index.zip......................flat filer
irssi.x.pet....................irc chat client
java1506.pup...................java
freetts........................speech engine
yasr...........................screen reader
brltty-3.10....................soft brailler
clacct.........................Command Line Accountant
aspell.........................spell checker
alpine 1.10.pet................email client
links-2.2.0....................text web browser
firelog........................Internet Utilities
Simplebashbu...................Backup script

Puppy with KDE accessability

This does work with Puppy 410 Retro.

What you need:

1 - Mu's KDE sfs file from
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=351544344&t=26151
It includes KDE's accessibility stuff.
Rename the file to kde_version.sfs I used kde_410.sfs as I was using Puppy 410.

2 - Flite
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/wmd04r/puppy/flite-1.3.pet
Festivial or freetts can be used.


Configuring the system

Open a terminal and type kttsd.
Click on ADD and Talker and select the speech system.
Close the kttsd window.

From the Menu, select utilities and ksayit
Click on configurte
Close the window.
A red mouth should appear on the lower left corner.

Copy anything you wish spoken to the KLIPPER program.
Click on the red mouth and then on say.

Friday, March 19, 2010

MCvox where are you

MCvox is a Midnight Commander with support for braille and speech output. It is, or rather was, part of the Oralux project that was abandoned some years ago. Two days of searching with Google, Bing, Metasearch and Dogpile have come up with several sites that have claimed to have links where MCvox can be downloaded, but all seem to link to Oralux's site, or sites that are not available. Either way, I have been unable to find MCvox.