Why just compile your own kernel and you can have whatever you want? Storm Dragon <stormdragon2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy, > The device is something like /dev/svca. I haven't done anything with it > myself, but maybe it could be useful. > Speakup is a great screen reader. I personally love it and would happily be > using it now, except the Odroid kernel doesn't include staging, so no speakup > for me. I have to find an alternative. I have been using full graphical for a > while now. Brltty has at least gotten me back partially to where I want to > be. A lot of people think the screen reader doesn't belong in the kernel. > Personally I could care less if it is in the kernel or user space, just so > long as it works. I don't care about the politics, just the functionality > lol, and speakup rocks. > As for getting it working with pulse, I can't take credit for > that. Chrys figured that out. You just have to drop in 2 files and it > will start playing nicely together. I have attached them here. The > client.conf goes in the pulse config for root: Place the default.pa in > your ~/.config/pulse directory > Finally restart pulseaudio or reboot your computer and it should work. > Sometimes brltty speech will be crackly, so just do a sudo systemctl restart > brltty and it should fix it. Speech with espeak is a bit too quiet even on > loudest setting, but other than that, it is very responsive and quite nice to > use. > On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 09:21:58PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote: > >[quoted lines by Storm Dragon on 2016/07/02 at 18:24 -0400] > > > >>It can make for a lot of speaking. But there's usually a silence speech key > >>to > >>interupt if you don't want to hear what is being spoken. Also, most screen > >>readers have a setting, in a lot of cases default, that interupts incoming > >>speech whenever you press anything on the keyboard, typing a word, pressing > >>shift, etc. > > > >Brltty has a command (KPPeriod + KP7) to go up to the previous command > >prompt, > >and another command (KPPlus + KP2) to speak from where you are down to the > >bottom of the screen. I think that these commands, when used together, > >effectively do what's being asekd for. I suppose, if there's a need, we could > >add a third command that does both of them. > > > >>I seem to remember hearing about something in /dev that con provide the > >>screen's output for updates to the screen, but that nothing currently uses > >>it, > >>speakup included. > > > >I'm unaware of any such device. > > > >>I was finally told that brltty could act as a screen reader, > > > >Just to be picky: Brltty is a screen reader. It's just that it's primary > >target > >is braille users. I think that you're referring to speech-oriented screen > >readers. > > > >This brings me to a question: There seems to have been a significant growth > >in > >those looking at brltty to be their speech screen reader lately. Does anyone > >know why? Is Speakup, for some reason, no longer the speech screen reader of > >choice? > > > >And, while I'm asking questions, I have another one for you: There's a guy on > >this list who's been trying to get brltty's espeak speech driver, via Pulse > >Audio, to work reliably. From what you've written, you seem to have figured > >out > >how to do it. Would you mind describing how you've set all this stuff up on > >your system? > > > > -- > >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 > > -- > Powered by Arch Linux! I am registered Linux user number 508465: > https://linuxcounter.net/user/508465.html > My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.tk/ > get my public PGP key: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 43DDC193 > Twitter and Facebook are so ... yesteryear. Get your 2MB Social account > TODAY! http://2mb.social/main/register > The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple > problems look like large, complex ones. > "You should have known, the price of evil" > Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- 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
