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In-Depth Series: Accessibility

  • Number of episodes: 21
  • Open/closed: open
  • Date of earliest show: 2008-04-25
  • Date of latest show: 2024-08-21
  • Series RSS feeds: ogg, spx, mp3
Shows about tearing down the barriers for our fellow hackers.

hpr4188 :: Re: HPR4172 Comment by Ken Fallon hosted by Archer72

Wednesday, 2024-08-21. 00:05:09. Clean.
tts, TextToSpeech, VoiceSynthesis, accessibility.

Archer72 responds to Ken's comment on HPR4172 with hopefully enough detail

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hpr4172 :: Re: hpr4072 Piper voice synthesis hosted by Archer72

Tuesday, 2024-07-30. 00:05:15. Clean.
tts, TextToSpeech, VoiceSynthesis, accessibility.

Archer72 demonstrates using the /opt directory for the Piper executables.

Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.

hpr4072 :: Piper text to speech engine hosted by Archer72

Tuesday, 2024-03-12. 00:06:28. Clean.
Piper, TTS, Text to speech, Voice synthesis.

Archer72 talks about Piper TTS using a Piper voice

Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.

hpr3574 :: Local Talking Newspapers hosted by Lee

Thursday, 2022-04-14. 00:06:33. Clean.
blind, audio, recording.

Recordings of Local News for the Blind and Visually Impaired

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hpr2309 :: Crowdsourcing Accessibility hosted by Jon Kulp

Thursday, 2017-06-08. 00:22:34. Clean.
Accessibility, scripting, audio editing, speech-to-text.

A show about my efforts to get lots of students to help correct transcriptions of my online lectures

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hpr2094 :: Custom Keystrokes for Desktop Navigation on Gnome hosted by Jon Kulp

Thursday, 2016-08-11. 00:14:04. Clean.
Scripting, Linux, Desktop Environments, Accessibility.

I demonstrate how to add custom keystrokes for desktop navigation on classic gnome

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hpr2054 :: Blather Configuration Part 1: Desktop Management hosted by Jon Kulp

Thursday, 2016-06-16. 00:24:56. Clean.
Accessibility, speech recognition, linux, scripting.

Blather Configuration Part 1: Desktop Management

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hpr2039 :: Blather Configuration Part 0: Initial Setup hosted by Jon Kulp

Thursday, 2016-05-26. 00:19:06. Clean.
blather, speech recognition, accessibility, scripting, GNU/Linux.

In this episode I walk you through the process of getting blather running for the first time

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hpr1782 :: ChorusText - a Non-visual Text Editor Open Assistive Device Project hosted by kurakura

Tuesday, 2015-06-02. 00:17:31. Explicit.
ChorusText, text editor, Arduino, pcDuino, eSpeak, Mary TTS, Maker Faire Singapore 2015.

Introducing ChorusText, a non-visual text editor open assistive device project

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hpr1770 :: The OpenDyslexic Font hosted by Jon Kulp

Friday, 2015-05-15. 00:18:07. Clean.
Accessibility, Fonts, Typesetting, Web design, Dyslexia.

Introduction to the OpenDyslexic font

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hpr1769 :: A Demonstration of Dictation Software on my Office Computer hosted by Jon Kulp

Thursday, 2015-05-14. 00:13:45. Clean.
RSI, Dictation, Speech Recognition.

I record a whole show in dictation mode to demonstrate Dragon dictation software capabilities

Listen in ogg, spx, or mp3 format.

hpr1750 :: xclip, xdotool, xvkbd: 3 CLI Linux tools for RSI sufferers hosted by Jon Kulp

Friday, 2015-04-17. 00:20:58. Clean.
Accessibility, Linux, scripting, command line.

3 command-line tools that save me hundreds of keystrokes a day.

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hpr1686 :: Interview with Joel Gibbard of OpenHand hosted by Steve Bickle

Monday, 2015-01-19. 00:26:59. Clean.
Open Source, Robotics, 3D Printing.

An interview with Joel Gibbard founder of the prize winning Openhand project

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hpr1561 :: How I got into Accessible Computing hosted by Mike Ray

Monday, 2014-07-28. 00:07:07. Clean.
accessible, NVDA, Orca, brltty, Vinux, Talking Arch, Ubuntu Accessibility, Debian Accessibility.

How I got into Accessible Computing including definition of 'accessible'

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hpr1406 :: ORCA fundraiser hosted by Ahuka

Monday, 2013-12-23. 00:34:44. Explicit.
accessibility, orca.

Ahuka talks to Jonathan Nadeau about the campaign to improve the Orca Screen Reader

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hpr1264 :: Open Accessibility: Interview with Steve Lee hosted by Ken Fallon

Thursday, 2013-06-06. 00:54:13. Explicit.
oggcamp.

Ken Catches up with Steve Lee just before he gave his talk on Open Accessability.

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hpr1102 :: Speech Impediments hosted by DoorToDoorGeek

Tuesday, 2012-10-23. 00:22:02. Explicit.
speech impediment, stuttering.

In this episode Door shares with us life with a speech impediment

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hpr959 :: The Orca Screen Reader hosted by Various Hosts

Thursday, 2012-04-05. 00:53:41. Explicit.
Orca screen reader, NELF.

Joanmarie Diggs' talk from NELF about the Orca Screen Reader

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hpr706 :: What to do when confronted with a blind person hosted by Jonathan Nadeau

Monday, 2011-04-18. 00:10:19. Explicit.
accessibility.

Some advice for sighted people when encountering a blind person

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hpr697 :: Aaron Seigo on accessibility in KDE. An outtake from Frostcast Episode 36. hosted by Jonathan Nadeau

Tuesday, 2011-04-05. 00:34:05. Explicit.
accessibility, kde, interview.

Aaron Seigo, KDE Developer, talks about accessibility in KDE

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hpr84 :: Phone interview with Kajarii: Linux for the blind user hosted by Dave Yates

Friday, 2008-04-25. 01:11:15. Explicit.
Linux, Computing for Blind users, Screen readers.

Kajarii: Linux for the blind user

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