running Speakup on the Mac

[Jane Jordan (gmail)]

I have plenty of time, so go ahead.  I understand about Finals.  Mine  
start on may 1.

Jane


On Apr 12, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:

> 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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