Greetings, Kyle wrote: > I did most things with a single text console that ran YASR > automatically at login and did all my work in Screen, > which allowed me to have a nearly unlimited number of "windows" > open on a single console, all under a single YASR instance. The combination of yasr and screen is a VERY good one, because screen provides a really good cut-and-paste mechanism which is the most important thing that yasr lacks. > The trade-off is that you will get no speech prior to login, If you are able to log in, you have dmesg and /var/log/messages, and dmesg provides a record of things that happened long before the speakup module gets loaded. A big problem for installs is the BIOS; that, I guess, needs a separate computer with camera and O C R ... Perhaps the ideal solution would be to build speech into a touchscreen monitor, and not into the operating system ? My big problems with yasr are : One: yasr can't use espeak except through emacspeak, and I can't get emacspeak configured to use espeak properly (it seems to use eflite commands even when talking to /usr/bin/espeak). But my eflite chops off the last part of every word, which makes a lot of things unrecognisable. Two: I can't understand how keystrokes are specified in yasr.conf for example, to me, 0x1b6c means Escape l, not alt-L If I were rewriting yasr, I'd probably do it in perl or lua, which would reduce the code-bulk by several times, and make it more maintainable and portable. Regards, Peter Billam P.S. I am a long-time unix programmer, and still sighted, though this is not improving, so I'm wanting to select a speaking interface and learn it while it's still easy for me. http://www.pjb.com.au pj at pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949
