Hello! I have uploaded a beta test version of brass - a Braille and speech server for Linux. Brass is a combination of a screen reader with speech output and a Braille terminal driver like brltty. You can use speech and Braille or just one of it. It does not need Braille hardware, it can be controlled by the computer keyboard (to use this, a small kernel patch has to be applied). Speech output is available with hardware synthesizers (Dolphin Apollo, IBM Invofox) or with software through the soundcard. Supported languages are English and German. The code of brass is based on the brltty code. The idea of soft cursor routing by screen attributes is from sbl, the SuSE Braille driver. Supported Braille hardware is: - Alva (serial connection) - Baum Vario (should be work with Handytech, too) - Papenmeier - TSI - CombiBraille More information on: http://www.butenuth.onlinehome.de/blinux/ Or direct download: http://www.butenuth.onlinehome.de/blinux/brass-latest.tar.gz Please report any problems or suggestions for improvements to: butenuth@online.de Hope this is useful for some people Roger Butenuth
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