RE: Web browsing using speech software

["Robinson, Norman B - Washington, DC" <Norman B Robinson usps gov>]

On a related subject matter, have you taken a look at FANGS and
FoxyVoice for Firefox?

Also, under the 'other' operating system, we use Jawbone to enable JAWS
for Windows and DragonNaturallySpeaking to work together. I highly
suggest you evaluate Jawbone while investigating existing
implementations.

Regards,

Norman

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From: gnome-accessibility-list-bounces gnome org
[mailto:gnome-accessibility-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Craig
March
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 10:17 PM
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Subject: Web browsing using speech software


Hi all,

I apologise for the long post.

I'm a lurker of the mailing list due to my interest in accessibility.
Although 
I don't use GNOME (a KDE user), I am still interested in the discussions
that 
take place on this list, and to be honest, GNOME accessibility seems to
be 
ahead of KDE in terms of users, development and support.

As I understand it, there are some people on the list who use
Gnopernicus for 
accessibility, either speech or braille. My question for those who use
the 
speech engines is what browser do you use for internet use (if this is 
possible) and if so, how well does the software work.

I'm specifically interested in Web access and using speech technology to

navigate and retrieve information from the web. My final year uni
project has 
involved me in researching this topic and evaluating the current status
as 
well as providing me with the opportunity to demonstrate possible
solutions. 
If anyone has any experience with the anything I have just mentioned I
would 
love to hear about it either on or off list.

I am actually in the process of trying to create an extension to the
firefox 
browser which will allow a pc user the ability to control the interface
with 
speech and listen to the web page contents using a text to speech
engine. 
Currently this is being programmed in Java using Sphinx and FreeTTS
API's. 
Does anybody have any thoughts on this? I wanted to be able to suggest 
something that was platform independent, well developed and designed in
such 
a way that it could be extended (i.e. could utlilise other TTS engines,
work 
with other browsers and even other software).

Again, apologies for the long post, but any and all comments will be
much 
appreciated.

Thanks again,

Craig
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