This is something i really should have mentioned ages ago but somehow forgot
On the Linux Audio Users list, at the beginning of April the developer of 'Bristol', (a rather good Open Source organ emulator) announced the latest version of his creation.
On hearing the sample files, a blind musician asked if command line extensions could be added, so that he could use the system. Command line control would allow him to use purely keyboard entries, and also a text-speech program for the software's responses.
The developer took this up pretty much immediately, and a rapid period of development ensued. This was actually taken across to the Linux Audio Developers list where it was thought to be more appropriate. Working together, and also bringing in ideas from other fully sighted and partially sighted developers and musicians, a full conversion was completed in a month.
As is often the case with completely open development, not only is a target clearly defined and reached, but there are side benefits. There is something else that greatly benefits from command line controls - automation! Bristol can now be controlled from
any software that can send and receive plain text messages.
