Efficiently using terminal with screenreader

[John G Heim]

A hardware speech synth  connects to the USB or serial port on your 
computer. You have to have special software to use it. Speakup 
originally worked only with hardware speech synths because nobody had 
written a software speech driver for it. Until recently, speakup 
required a speech synth that connected to a serial port. It did not 
support synths connected to a USB port. I don't know if that's still 
true. I don't think so. A USB synth costs about $200. I spent $450 for 
the one I have which has both USB and serial port connections.

Mosthe hardware speech synths have a speaker but most have a headphone 
jack too.





On 12/17/20 7:24 AM, Reece O'Bryan wrote:
> 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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