Dave Mielke <d...@mielke.cc> wrote: > [quoted lines by chrys87 on 2016/07/03 at 00:43 +0200] > > >what he wants > >is that brltty reads all the output of ls. or if you fire a "ping" > >that if the answer appear and its printet on the screen that the > >result is spoken. > > Yes, I understand what this feature is supposed to do. I'm just not convinced > that it'd add to what brltty already provides. Speech, by nature, is slow so > I'm not understanding why one would want anything other than the line(s) one > is > actually looking for to be spoken. Wouldn't it be much faster, therefore, to > just let the command finish and then to look for the interesting line(s)? > > >for voice this is for sure a very useful feature. because you dont have > >always > >to cursor around. > > But you do have to listen to a whole lot of speaking of lines you probably > aren't actually interested in. Isn't that a huge waste of time? > > >I now about (sadly a not active) maintained consolescreenreader "yasr" that > >is able to do that task without root permission. > >Not sure how this works. > >http://yasr.sourceforge.net/ > > As I recall, yasr was a change to the screen program. If so, it, like > Speakup, > was in the position of being able to hook right into what's being written to > the screen. >
Screen and yasr do not have access to the kernnel. I think for speech, this feature would be useful as you don't know if there is anything to read once you have typed a command unless you have looked back and sometimes you don't. I use speakup however and this is one of its nice features, if I type a command I just let it go and hit control or enter on the numpad to shut it up, and of course I use less a lot. With Braille its not that useful and what you are doing is correct. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com _______________________________________________ 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