[quoted lines by kendell clark on 2016/03/19 at 10:13 -0500] >It's pretty easy to get brltty to speak on startup, but upon logging in, all >speech stops.
Are you referring to logging in via a text console or via an X session? You might try capturing a debug log so that you can gain more insight into what's going on. In this regard, there are two options that you should familiarize yourself with. One is -L (uppercase) which lets you specify the log file, and the other is -l (lowercase) which lets you specify what you want in the log. So, for example: -L/path/to/logfile -ldebug,speech,spkdrv The "speech" log category logs core events related to speech, and the "spkdrv" log category logs events within the speech driver itself. >Does anyone know how to review the screen using the keyboard? I don't own a >braille display, so I'm hoping screen review via the keyboard is possible. Brltty supports keyboard tables. These bind keyboard key combinations to brltty navigation functions. There are a few of them - the one named keypad supports the most functions. For a full description of what you can do with it: Go to: brltty.com Click on: Documentation Click on: Key Binding Lists Click on: Computer Keyboard Bindings Click on: Bindings for Keypad-based Navigation You can enable a keyboard key table in a couple of ways. One is to use the -k command line option (e.g. -kkeypad). Anotehr is to specify it within brltty.conf, for example: keyboard-table keypad >I've been trying to enable the speech-dispatcher brltty speech module. Brltty >errors out, saying it can't load the shared library. According to the readme >in the source code, brltty will build it's speech-dispatcher module if >speech-dispatcher is found when it's built, but I can't seem to get this to >work. When does it say that it can't load the shared library? From what you've written, it seems that it's saying this at run-time. If so, this implies very strongly that it did build the driver, but that the needed shared library can't be found at run-time. Is it possible, for example, that you're starting brltty from an initrd that doesn't contain all of the neded shared libraries? >Espeak was recently forked into a project called espeak ng. Would it be >possible to add support for this fork? Normally you wouldn't need to modify >the plugin but for some reason the espeak plugin doesn't work with the fork. Again, we'd need to see a debug log in order to try to gain some insight as to what's going wrong. I trust you can appreciate that I'd rather not guess. >I'd also like espeak varients and voices (languages) to be selectable in >brltty. Is this possible? Yes. The eSpeak speech driver already has a voice= parameter. More could easily be added. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of God. Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ EMail: d...@mielke.cc | Canada K2A 1H7 | http://FamilyRadio.org/ _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
