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Re: OT: screen reader for raspberry pi
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Scott Gillen <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 27 Dec 2015 22:54:10 +1300
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4 x USB2, ethernet, HDMI, analog audio as well as a bunch of GPIO and som other stuff I don't know about on a  pin block on the bord. 

Scott
N0HOK / ZL1CHM
Auckland New Zealand
Sent from my iPhone

On 27/12/2015, at 10:47 PM, "David W Wood" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi Scott
> 
> Thanks for that!
> What I/O facilities are there on it?
> 
> 73
> 
> David W Wood 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Gillen [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2015 9:36 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: OT: screen reader for raspberry pi
> 
> It's a small computer board that is about the size of a deck of cards.  The
> b version is a quod core with 1GB of memery. The OS generally is a variant
> of Linux however there is mint to be a version of windows 10. 
> 
> Scott
> N0HOK / ZL1CHM
> Auckland New Zealand
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 27/12/2015, at 9:37 PM, David W Wood
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Tom and all
>> 
>> I have heard bits about this device for a while but have no clue about its
>> physical presentation.
>> I realize that this is a basic question, but can someone describe it?
>> Also, its basic software or o/s?
>> 
>> 73
>> 
>> David W Wood 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Tom Fowle
>> Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2015 4:59 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: OT: screen reader for raspberry pi
>> 
>> According to the raspberryvi.org site orca is not yet up on the pi.
>> It is for accessing desktops like gnome whereas speakup works at the
>> console/command line level of linux.
>> tom Fowle WA6IVG
>> On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 09:02:29PM -0700, Eric Oyen wrote:
>>> there is one other package you might consider.
>>> 
>>> its called ORCA and it also needs python as a prerequisite. I use it on =
>>> my linux partition with the gnome desktop and it works quite well.
>>> 
>>> DE n7zzt Eric
>>> 
>>> On Dec 26, 2015, at 7:00 PM, Tom Fowle wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Scott,
>>>> the best source of such info is
>>>> http://www.raspberryvi.org/
>>>> =20
>>>> I believe they are close to having either speakup or yasr working
>>>> and there is the aforementioned ssh method. where you read the pi's =
>>> output
>>>> on your windows or linux box.
>>>> Tom Fowle WA6IVG
>>>> =20
>>>> =20
>>>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 01:17:27PM +1300, Scott Gillen wrote:
>>>>> Any one know of a screen reader for the Raspberry Pi?
>>>>> =20
>>>>> Scott
>>>>> N0HOK / ZL1CHM
>>>>> Auckland New Zealand
>>>>> =20
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
> 
>

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