[Open Mind Speech] Literature search

[Richard S. <ric...@be...>]

Brand new to the mailing list.

I have a neighbor down the road who is visually impaired.  I am a fairly 
proficient programmer, but before I re-invent the wheel, I want to find 
out if the software he wants is already avaiable.  He has a band, and he 
does the recording engineer stuff to produce thier CD's on their 
computer.  I want to be able to write (Java perhaps?) software that can 
run on a Windows operating system that will let a blind user, with 
little or no keyboard input, use voice commands in a head set to capture 
audio clips, name them, convert them to mp3 or ogg format, master a CD 
iso image, input descriptions of the songs for an online music store and 
the liner notes for the album, and publish an online web store where the 
CD images or individual tracks can be downloaded and / or CD's ordered.

I think such a package could sell for over $1000 if I were selling it, 
but the initial development I want to do as a favor to my new neighbors, 
for a percentage of any CD sales and rights to redistribute the software.

I might offer a free version for download and if someone wanted an 
installed system on hardware that I sold I could tack on a software 
purchase agreement with a hardware system that I resold.

Richard S. Snow
ric...@be...