hi Thanks for all of your help. Is it possible to specify multiple keyboard tables, so that if a user has a braille display, they can use that, but if not, they can use the keypad? I've added the following to our brltty config file. keyboard-table braille,keypad. Thanks Kendell Clark
Dave Mielke wrote: > [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. > _______________________________________________ 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
