sorry for this post, but i dont know who else to ask...

one of the profs here at the university wants me to build his sister a
computer.  they have a few stipulations.  she is blind and wants a voice
recognition program so she can run things without seeing them. also,
they want it to be a mac.  does anyone know of any voice software for
the mac out there?
next question, she wants a midi hookup to a keyboard.  how midi friendly
is mac?  what kind of software / hardware should i be looking for?
also, jim stevenson, what kind of a setup do you use?  you have
mentioned your mail reader in the past, but what other hardware /
software do you use?  do they make braille keyboards?

any info or url that anyone could give would be most appreciated.  sorry
for the off topic post.

pete

On speech and speech recognition a good starting point is
 Shortcut: speech
Apple was on the leading edge of this field three to five years ago, but
they let it languish. They're trying hard to regain their lead. OS 8 comes
with built-in speech synthesis with a large variety of voices.

On midi, for years more professionals have used Mac than any other
platform. I would start at http://www.opcode.com/ and http://www.motu.com/.
For lower cost check out http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/ME/ME4.html. I've
been midi-ing on Mac's since 1989.

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