Eric and Discussion of CHIRP,
For those who have vision problems including blindness, I heartily recommend SLINT based on Slackware. SLINT stands for SLackware INTernational and it supports many languages and it is the most accessible distribution I know of. There are several speech systems supported, and IBM Text to Speech - VOXIN - is supported even though VOXIN must be purchased for $5.00 per language from oralux.org a non-profit group.
CHIRP and other ham radio programs are available for SLINT. I'm using SLINT right now.
73 DR N1EA
On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 1:13 PM Eric Oyen via chirp_users < chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
Actually, that is not a bad idea all things considered. An open API that is standard regardless of OS would make life a lot easier for both the coders and users. Unfortunately, try convincing both Apple and Microsoft of this. Perhaps something like the UEFI consortium might work to get this to happen.
DE n7zzt Eric
On Feb 21, 2021, at 9:14 AM, Chuck Hast kp4djt@gmail.com wrote:
I think that this is one that the proprietary folks could take a lesson from Open Source, I know several people who use Chirp on Linux for the open screen reader interface. I think it is time that those two groups stump up and write code that will use the open API rather than force the Chirp coders to code for their proprietary interfaces. They have enough on their plates keeping up with all of the other stuff. Knowing that I have vision limited friends who happily use Linux for the screen reader interface nulls that whole Chirp should meet MS/Apple API's. Sorry but they either need to cut bait or get off the dock.