Efficiently using terminal with screenreader

[Reece O'Bryan]

Wow. This product sounds amazing. Would you care to share the manufacture of your hardware synthesizer or have a company to recommend? You save this works with a device even if it does not have speakers, so this means it either has a speaker in bedded or you connect headphones, etc. Is it possible to use one of these, a hardware speech synthesizer, to read anything that outputs text; so with this mean that in theory you could even use one of these with an operating system and no software screen reader or even a machine that doesn’t have anything for accessibility, such as a TV or ATM machine? I’m guessing it just grabs the plaintext that is visually output, I would think that would allow you to use a device like that with almost anything that has a USB port and outputs text, am I correct on that assumption?


Thank you,

-Reece 

> On Dec 16, 2020, at 4:37 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net> wrote:
> 
> out of curiosity, does fenrir work with any dectalk hardware?
> Kare
> 
> 
> 
>> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020, Janina Sajka wrote:
>> 
>> I agree with this advice. However, getting both environments function
>> with speech could prove to be a challenge on your hardware.
>> 
>> Speech Dispatcher doesn't play with Speakup. There are other
>> complications that may, or may not prove problematical.
>> 
>> Your best bet might be Fenrir.
>> 
>> My current solution is as follows:
>> 
>> Speakup using espeak with the espeakup connector. Note this is the old
>> espeak, not espeak-ng.
>> 
>> Orca with Speech-Dispatcher using RH Voice.
>> 
>> FYI: I'm on a fully updated Arch.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Janina
>> 
>> Zachary Kline writes:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> To be perfectly honest, I recommend using Speakup for good terminal support. Orca is rather sub-par in this regard, and Speakup was designed to fully support command-line output from the start.
>>> Best,
>>> Zack.
>>> 
>>>> On Dec 14, 2020, at 10:52 AM, Reece O'Bryan <reece.obryan at icloud.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> I’m having trouble efficiently accessing outputs from terminal in Orca. I need a fully functioning screen reader, is there an easy way to navigate line by line of output from terminal in espeakup or orca?
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> 
>>>> -Reece
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>> Janina Sajka
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>> 
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