running Speakup on the Mac

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
Speakup is a Linux screen reader which operates at the kernel level.  
Thus, it requires Linux and is not capable of running on OS X (or any  
other OS for that matter), it would have to be completely rewritten  
to allow this. However, I'd be willing to bet that YASR, another UNIX  
screen reader, could be made to work though you'd need a hardware  
synthesizer to use it unless support for Apple voices could be worked  
in, which is probably possible though using those at the same time as  
VO would probably cause the same conflict as most other speaking apps  
attempting to do this. YASR isn't as robust as speakup but it can do  
most things, and it already compiles on FreeBSD. I'll work on this,  
if someone doesn't do it first, when I get the time which should be  
in a few weeks once finals are over. It shouldn't be too much work,  
as it operates at the shell level itself, it doesn't need anything  
from the OS other than to open a PTY to read the output. Would be  
nice to have terminal reading automatically.


On Apr 12, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote:

> Has anyone tried running Speakup on the Mac?  Will it work?  I want
> to try using it with the terminal we have, but not sure if it can be
> done.  Anyone tried it?  Will it work with Mac voices, or will I have
> to get a differnt synthesizer or what? :)
>
> Jane
>
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