the direction of speakup

[Brian Buhrow]

	Hello.  Just to followup on what Kyle wrote, I've been using Yasr
under NetBSD for over 5 years, and I run it either from the console or in
an Xterminal.  Yasr has a pass-through key, so even if there is a key
binding conflict between two applications, Yasr can work with that.  I've
grown rather fond of the flite speech engine, and eflite works quite well
with Yasr, modulo a few bugs I had to fix in the early days.
-Brian

On May 10,  8:30am, Kyle wrote:
} Subject: Re: the direction of speakup
} According to Jason White:
} # It runs its own shell and captures input/output, somewhat like screen(1).
} 
} This actually makes YASR the most portable text console screen reader I
} am aware of, since it can run on just about any Unix-like operating
} system. It runs entirely in userspace and depends on shell output rather
} than relying on any kernel level code or output. It also has the benefit
} of being able to work with a wide range of hardware synthesizers via
} Emacspeak servers and possibly other local drivers as well, and also has
} software speech available through various interfaces, including EFlite
} and speech-dispatcher. The trade-off is that you will get no speech
} prior to login, although with the correct login script, you can have
} YASR come up automatically once you've logged into the console you want
} to use. There once was a separate program included in the YASR source
} tree that could read the console prior to login, but I don't currently
} know if it still works. I remember getting it to work at one point, but
} that was some time ago. I did most things with a single text console
} that ran YASR automatically at login and did all my work in Screen,
} which allowed me to have a nearly unlimited number of "windows" open on
} a single console, all under a single YASR instance.
} 
} Just a quick note: because of the way YASR works in a subshell, it
} should be capable of working in a desktop terminal application like
} Xterm, giving you familiar functionality when you have that text-based
} application that Orca doesn't like in gnome-terminal. Keybindings
} shouldn't be a problem either, even if you use gnome-terminal and
} silence Orca, since as far as I know, there aren't any conflicts between
} Orca and YASR keyboard commands.
} ~Kyle
} http://kyle.tk/
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>-- End of excerpt from Kyle