Re: Required support for developing chess software for the blind.

[Mridul Muralidharan]

Hi Charudatta Jadhav,

  GNUChess (and many others) use the xboard protocol for communicting
with the GUI , so if you want , you can write a mediator which
intercepts these commands to and from the engine and parse/use it for
your needs. The specification which defines the input/output is
available here : http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard/engine-intf.html

  I think some of the commercial programs have speech capability. Also
, I recently heard that crafty has added speech support , which
basically works by invoking a script which read out the moves to the
user - last I heard , this was restricted to the linux platform ,
maybe you can use this , or modify/adapt that script to accomplish
what you want.

I am not sure if there are any api's as such available for the prupose
of reading out the moves ...

Hope this helps,

Regards
Mridul


On 6/10/05, Charudatta Jadhav <address@hidden> wrote:
>  
> Dear Sir, 
> I am a blind person and a software programmer. I am planning to develop a
> chess software with speech for the blind. This software will support
> different languages having plug in architecture. I would like to have a
> chess engine with it's API support. Can I get new chess engine and support
> for developing chess software for the blind? 
> I will be highly obliged if you give me support and guidance for developing
> this software. 
> With warm regards, 
>   
> Charudatta Jadhav
> Project Leader 
> GTL Limited
> Tel. 022 27612929  (Ext. 2281) 
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