tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33801994.post2598735483974032586..comments2024-02-14T02:30:36.732-05:00Comments on The Blog of Helios: Award-Winning Autism Application Comes to Linux. Oh Wait.....No it Doesn'tAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13978117986484281976noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33801994.post-74788957920313606492013-06-23T16:41:09.473-05:002013-06-23T16:41:09.473-05:00My sincere appreciation to those who have put any ...My sincere appreciation to those who have put any time at all into this endeavor. <br /><br />I presently use gespeaker to enable my friend to speak what he writes.<br /><br />I find no other alternatives while using a pc or laptop. <br /><br />Some issues are that it takes too many steps. My friend needs non distractive ultra simple. He is non verbal, not very oriented to time and space, and very shaky. Very difficult for him to get body to obey his desired movement.<br /><br />I would like to see a program which will speak the letter when it is pressed, and at the completion of the word when the space bar is pressed the word would be spoken. Then at the end of the sentence when the enter key is pressed the entire sentence would be spoken.<br /><br />To accustom my friend to the layout of the keyboard I purchased a sticky alphabet, then made a chart with the same qwerty layout of the keyboard, using the alphabet stickers. I then have him practice on the chart whenever we are in a computer free location. I give voice to the letters he preses on the chart. <br /><br />Again my thanks to everyone who exerted any effort towards moving linux into a more autism friendly mode.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33801994.post-39166273278706171872012-04-06T14:42:10.259-05:002012-04-06T14:42:10.259-05:00That sucks! Sorry to hear this promising project i...That sucks! Sorry to hear this promising project is now DOA.<br /><br />Just one more reason to depend only on Open Source tools. Score another "victory" for Adobe. ;(Amenditmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345522537672251667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33801994.post-27411431795015240532012-04-06T08:46:39.708-05:002012-04-06T08:46:39.708-05:00I'm not sure quite what to make of this. A so...I'm not sure quite what to make of this. A software company/project announces the release of a product and has every reason to think it is functional, when in fact, it is broken due to third party tools that they should have known were obsolete?<br /><br />How far removed from your own development process do you have to be in order to let this happen?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33801994.post-28398378808650515662012-04-05T20:27:51.073-05:002012-04-05T20:27:51.073-05:00Woah. That sucks. Third-party tools are hazardous ...Woah. That sucks. Third-party tools are hazardous that way. They can both help and hinder, depending on the trend lines.<br /><br />Also, sorry to hear about the autism project. But the economy is improving, slowly... Very slowly... Perhaps someday that type of funding will be easy to find.<br /><br />Here is hoping!Gavinnoreply@blogger.com