Speech software for palm os 5

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anwile wrote:

> Does anyone know of Speech software for palm os 5. A freind of mine
> who is blind recently asked if you could get speech software for the
> palm os. He says it is available for windows and symbian operating
> systems but he was taken with the built in Wi-Fi in my Tungsten C.

There's Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I wrote about it some time ago

http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/arch [...] your-palm/

I don't think that voice commands will work, but if your friend wishes to
write documents by speech, this may be the way to go.

Roy

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Roy S. Schestowitz
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Archived from groups: comp.sys.palmtops (More info?)

There is a software program called Hiptalk available from Handango or
PalmGear that is a Palm OS5 text to speach synthesizer.
http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm? [...] odID=76507


Pete Nalda wrote:
> In <d6rflb$2mcc$2@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>>anwile wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Does anyone know of Speech software for palm os 5. A freind of mine
>>>who is blind recently asked if you could get speech software for the
>>>palm os. He says it is available for windows and symbian operating
>>>systems but he was taken with the built in Wi-Fi in my Tungsten C.
>>
>>There's Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I wrote about it some time ago
>>
>>http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/03/29/speak-your-e-mail-to-
>>your-palm/
>>
>>I don't think that voice commands will work, but if your friend wishes
>>to write documents by speech, this may be the way to go.
>>
>>Roy
>>
>
> I think that the OP was talking about software that will read text on
> the screen aloud. When talking about speech for the blind it's the
> ability to have text read to them that they need.
>
> That said, I'm also visually impaired and have looked into this as well,
> and I'm not aware of anything for Palm OS as of yet.
>
> There is decent screen magnification available in Tealsoft's Teal
> Magnify that is OS 5 compatible.
>
>
>>PS - When crossposting (alt.comp.sys.plamtops.pilot), be sure to
>>contain all groups within the one message, or else effort goes to
>>waste and communication gets forked.
>>