: [Malvern] GMH Proposed Tech Talk

[Ian Pascoe]

Next GMH is on Tuesday week, 02/10/07 talk starting at about 8pm or whenever
we finish eating!

Rik, thanks for the nod on the player.  I thought about doing a demo, but as
this is the first computer presentation I've done, I didn't want to distract
myself with it.  I could do a demo on my works Windows box, but if anyone
wants to go with Linux it'd need a laptop with, preferably Ubuntu, with
Gnome 2.18 or later with Orca and it's dependancies loaded on it.  Oh, and
if someone has a blindfold too ....  Do we have access to a projector, as we
borrowed Barbie's for the last tech talk?

E

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Forster [mailto:rick at forster.uklinux.net]
Sent: 22 September 2007 14:05
To: ianpascoe at btinternet.com
Subject: Re: [Malvern] GMH Proposed Tech Talk


Sounds good.

Would a text-reader demo be worth setting up? Or would it be too hard to
get working on someone else's laptop?

This may interest you as well. I don't know if you've seen it before but
the alternate firmware for portable music players, Rockbox, has speech
capability.
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/BlindUsersIndex
It gets around a lack of internal text-to-speech capability by either
having pre-recorded mp3s saying "Black Sabbath" or it spells it out, one
letter at a time.

Rick


Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Morning Folks
>
> I threatened before the summer holidays to do a tech talk on Assistive
> Technologies - well the topic itself is proving to be a moving target, so
> instead of an in-depth nuts and bolts talk, I've cobbled together an
> overview which'll last about 10 - 15 minutes depending on how many "Ums"
and
> "Ers"  I say.
>
> There will be NO slides just me standing / sitting in front of you
> woffling - so what do you reckon then?  Would you like this?
>
> I'll come mentally prepared for the next GMH and see what you lot say.
>
> E
>
>
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