Recognizing of consumer durables which cannot be distinguished by touching
With the aid of the software "What is that?" and a barcode hand scanner, which is connected by the keyboard connector of the computer, barcodes, which are already present on a packaging or which were generated individually by another program (is not supplied), can be read, assigned to any text and retrieved any number of times by reading the barcode again.
The software can be downloaded free of charge by clicking on
here.
Please read the README file for installation instructions.
This program has a built-in interface to access a speech output program.
Every speech output program which can be called from the command line
with the text to speak as the parameter, can be used.
I have tested it with the Festival speech output which is also
used as the default setting.
For example, on a Ubuntu system, Festival can be installed
via the Synaptics package manager or downloaded and compiled
from the website
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
It is also possible that the support of my program for speech output
program can be disabled if you already use a screen reader, e.g. a
braille line.
In order that the barcodes in the supplied sample file (written in German) are recognized properly, the barcode handscanner has to be set up in "lower case" mode.
System requirements:
Desktop- or Tower computer, Linux 2.0.36 or higher, speech output
(see above) or screen reader (e.g. braille line), barcode hand
scanner with keyboard wedge
Last updated: 27 January 2008
Ulrich Greve
E-Mail: blindsoftware1@tichnut.de
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