Again, forwarded en mass. Thanks, Bruce!!! The punchline to the story:
The person wanting to setup his system, is the very same person I
talked with a decade or so ago. He lives in the same city, so at most,
it'll take a car ride to wire him up!

BRUCE CLARK wrote to JAMES BRADLEY, "Voice Reader" on 07-05-05 00:06

 -=> Quoting James Bradley to Bruce Clark <=-

 MR> "James Bradley" bravely wrote to "All" (30 Jun
05  20:58:06)

 JB> Someone who is blind wants to participate in Fido. I remember someone

 BC> Apparently Blue Wave/DOS has a speech-friendly video mode for
 BC> this purpose:

 JB> That's what I was thinking about!

 JB> But with the real-protected mode switch it sounds like it is less than
 JB> continual synthesis. The local fellow, I'm SURE preferred the voice
 JB> playback to his Braille dot-matrix like thingie. That too was when
 JB> 486's were all the rage. 

 BC> There should also be software to send the text to the Braille
 BC> "reader" rather then to voice synthesizer.

 BC> Look for something called: NFBTRANS
 BC> Description: Ablefile Public Domain Braille Translation Software

 BC> Also: Hot Dots and Turbo Braille


... James
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