[wellylug] accessible linux/opensource

[Rob Collins]

Hi,

My mother's partner has recently lost most of his sight and he asked me 
if there any free open source alternatives to the very expensive IBM 
voice to text and text to spoken JAWS.  Already discovered the German 
"MARY" for dictation and the Sun Microsystems "Sphinx 4" for voice 
recognition.  Haven't tried out MARY yet as it is a 500MB download and 
although Sphinx 4 says it is voice recognition, I don't know what it 
does with the voice once it has been recognised (does it spit out 
english text file output like I am trying to achieve??)

Anyone have any better suggestions or can help me with those mentioned 
above?  He runs windows so something that will run on that is ideal but 
I could convince him of a Linux dual boot if that was the only way 
around it.

Also - does anyone know of any sight impairment accessibility add-ons 
for Linux (eg high contrast / large text etc)?  The Linux distro I'm 
most familiar with is Kubuntu.

Ta,

Rob Collins
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