Re: Update

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:15:25 -0800 (PST), "Saint George's Dragon"
<allan_olley@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Erimess the Energetic Itchy Advocate of Justice wrote:
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:12:30 GMT, Optician Dragon<dragonlensm...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snicker snack>
Don't remember what I was saying, but think I was done.  I can read,
in tiny bits & pieces, but it's a little tricky.  Works better if each
sentence is on its own line.

One thing I'm curious about have you tried using a text to voice
program rather than reading (maybe that is what you are doing?)

I ask because they seem to be common nowadays (came standard with
Windows since at least XP?) and it seems like it might alleviate your
problem.

Obviously their are disadvantages and it is kind of grating to be
lectured by Stephen Hawkings, but just a thought.

I thought text to voice was cool when I realized my computer could do
it (back with XP or before?), but I have never really tried to use it
seriously.

I just fired it (narrator) up on my computer now to see how it
worked), it does not navigate web content well so I cut and pasted
this thread from my browser to notepad for reading.

I am not aware of XP having any such thing. I even looked in the
Accessability thing.

It wouldn't really even be a big deal except that I'm bored. I'm
allowed to watch TV, but still have to keep my head down, so I've
rigged up two different ways two do that. Since neither puts me
sitting in a chair normally, I have to make sure I'm sitting up
straight, since this looking down crap already bothers my back. I
started going thru my movies with the commentaries on -- I've seen
them all so I know what's going on, and I can sort of half watch and
half listen. Even so, I can only hack about a half hour of that.
(Took me 3 days to get thru Sleepy Hollow and Tim Burton is not
terribly exciting to listen to. Now I'm going thru Gladiator,and
Ridley Scott & Russell Crowe are much more interesting.)

From what I've seen & heard, I can probably start looking straight
ahead at least part-time fairly soon. That will help cause there's
other things I'll then be able to do.

--

Erimess Dragon
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