Hi Speakup is a Linux screen reader which operates at the kernel level. Thus, it requires Linux and is not capable of running on OS X (or any other OS for that matter), it would have to be completely rewritten to allow this. However, I'd be willing to bet that YASR, another UNIX screen reader, could be made to work though you'd need a hardware synthesizer to use it unless support for Apple voices could be worked in, which is probably possible though using those at the same time as VO would probably cause the same conflict as most other speaking apps attempting to do this. YASR isn't as robust as speakup but it can do most things, and it already compiles on FreeBSD. I'll work on this, if someone doesn't do it first, when I get the time which should be in a few weeks once finals are over. It shouldn't be too much work, as it operates at the shell level itself, it doesn't need anything from the OS other than to open a PTY to read the output. Would be nice to have terminal reading automatically. On Apr 12, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote: > Has anyone tried running Speakup on the Mac? Will it work? I want > to try using it with the terminal we have, but not sure if it can be > done. Anyone tried it? Will it work with Mac voices, or will I have > to get a differnt synthesizer or what? :) > > Jane > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
