Years ago, before Speakup supported software speech, I would keep yasr on my laptop just so I could have a screen reader when I didn't have a hardware synth on hand. I used it with flite. Best, Janina Linux for blind general discussion writes: > 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 -- 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