I was present once when the developer of SBL, Marco Skambraks, did a demo. He showed how SBL could let you work with Midnight Commander. I was jealous to try SBL after that, but I never got it going at the time. Janina PS: Didier, I have an email address for him, should you need. Linux for blind general discussion writes: > Hello, > > I have found a source package for SBL: > http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/jump/15.2/repo/oss/src/sbl-3.5.0.20130317.git7a75bc29-2.46.src.rpm > > I will try to build it and add it to the Slint main repository > > Cheers, Didier > Didier Spaier > Slint maintainer > https://slint.fr > > Le 30/09/2020 à 20:54, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka 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 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list