I'm personally a fan of SBL, particularly for it's hold down caps lock and use arrow keys to navigate the screen like a text document" style of screen review and it generally only reading the output from verbose commands that I tell it too instead of trying to read absolutely everything like espeakup does... though admittedly, I prefer espeakup's more verbose style when playing classic infocom text adventures in Fizmo or Frotz since I don't have to manually review the output of every action. I also find SBL works better with scrolling curses-basedapps as espeakup has a bad habit of reading a line that just scrolled on screen instead of the line that just came into focus when the two happen simultaneously. Sadly, SBL is, as far as I know, only available for OpenSUse and Knoppix as a precompiled package, and even then, Knoppix only has an i386 version and the .deb isn't readily available ever since Alioth was taken offline and too the Knoppix repository with it. SBL isn't in active development either as far as I know, though I can't say I've noticed any issues with the current version's age. About all I know about Fenrir is that it's userland-based while espeakup requires the speakup kernel module and that it's written in Python. I believe it also uses Speech dispatcher, which might make using software speech synths other than espeak/espak-ng easier in some cases(I've never had issues with espeak-ng, so I can't really comment on other synths). I know even less about YASR than Fenrir, but I understand it requires a hardware speech synth to function properly. -Jeffery _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list