Efficiently using terminal with screenreader

[Janina Sajka]

Theoretically, I'd say this should work. However, I don't know of
anyone's who's tried this approach, let alone succeeded with it.

I can say that I've run Speakup inside a Mac VMware Linux quite
successfullly in the past as recently as February of 2019.

As I recall I had Orca working inside the vm as well, except that the
Mac return/enter key didn't work for some reason I never figured out.

Is there some particular reason you want a hardware synth for speech in
your Mac vm? I ask because you could perfectly well use espeak, perhaps
even espeak-ng with Speakup in your Linux vm. That's how I was set up
when I had this configuration.

I know of others with similar setups. Some even consider the Mac
graphical desktop with a Speakup driven Linux vm the ultimate combo.

Best,

Janina

Reece O'Bryan writes:
> Just to confirm, I’m going to need a serial adapter to plug in to my USB hub connected to my MacBook, then connect a hardware synthesizer to the cereal. Doing it this way would I be able to use the hardware synthesizer inside of virtualBox running Debian and Speakup? I assume that it should in theory, but if not because of the virtualization, then plan B is doing the exact same thing while booting from something like Ubuntu on the USB.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> -Reece 
> 
> > On Dec 17, 2020, at 2:04 PM, Zachary Kline <zkline at speedpost.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Samuel,
> > 
> > No, they definitely don’t. As far as I’m aware they use an entirely different interface. The adaptor exposes /dev/ttyUSB0 but the synthesizer is still in serial/rs232 mode. There’s a hardware toggle switch to select one mode or the other.
> > Best,
> > Zack.
> > 
> >> On Dec 17, 2020, at 10:59 AM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Zachary Kline, le jeu. 17 déc. 2020 10:55:13 -0800, a ecrit:
> >>> but doesn’t support using synths in native USB mode.
> >> 
> >> Don't these simply expose a /dev/ttyUSB0 port?
> >> 
> >> Samuel
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Janina Sajka
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Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa