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From: shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: MIDI for the blind
Message-ID: <50347@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 91 11:47:57 GMT
References: <1991Mar16.182105.988@ulkyvx.bitnet>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991Mar16.182105.988@ulkyvx.bitnet> cl225115@ulkyvx.bitnet writes:

>I have a girlfriend who is a keyboardist and has an apple IIGS just laying
>around..  I was wondering what kind of HARDWARE and SOFTWARE their is out their
>and also looking for suggestions for some MIDI applications.   The thing is
>that she is BLIND and will need software that is 'keyboard' friendly.  As 
>she cant use a mouse etc.. But she has a device that makes the screen convert
>into speech output.. so if you have any ideas  please MAIL THEM to me!!

Don, if you need a "talking" version of shrinkit, try to get ahold of
Auto-UnShrinkIt.  If you have a Street Electronics Echo II speech board,
and the Text-Talker software which comes with it, "Auto" will speak
exactly what it's doing. (ie, "Extracting... this file, extracting that file")

I only wrote Auto-UnShrinkIt originally for a blind fellow on GEnie, but I got
a big kick out of having the Echo board speak everything as it was extracting
stuff from the archives.

>Don Hoover

andy

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I'm doing this on my own time, so I don't speak for Apple.