Hey, A few thoughts about the terminal in Mac OS. There is a screen reader called TDSR, which can be found here on Github <https://github.com/tspivey/tdsr>. It has better Terminal support than VoiceOver, though takes some getting used to. As far as your mac and a hardware speech synthesizer, using it with a virtual machine is your only option. VoiceOver doesn’t support hardware synths at all. Fortunately, if you use it with a virtual machine, which I’ve done before, it should work fairly well. That being said, TDSR is worth a look if you’re open to a lighter-weight solution. Best, Zack. > On Dec 17, 2020, at 12:37 PM, Reece O'Bryan <reece.obryan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Great! Seems to be the same process as connecting a network adapter to a virtual machine. > That is a little discouraging I can’t compile on my MacBook. The native terminal doesn’t seem to be accessible. I can’t read the output line by line, only the entire output from top to bottom of the terminal. I could be missing something, I am still quite new to voiceover. Although I have talked with a couple of MacBook users that have used voiceover for quite a few years, they are not familiar with terminal, but still could not figure out how to navigate it easily either. Maybe the hardware synthesizer could help there. (?) > > Thank you, > > -Reece > >> On Dec 17, 2020, at 3:27 PM, Gregory Nowak <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 03:00:52PM -0500, Reece O'Bryan wrote: >>> Is it possible to compile speak up on my MacBook? >> >> No. >> >>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 03:12:54PM -0500, Reece O'Bryan wrote: >>> Just to confirm, I’m going to need a serial adapter to plug in to my >> USB hub connected to my MacBook, then connect a hardware synthesizer >> to the cereal. >> >> Correct. >> >>> Doing it this way would I be able to use the hardware synthesizer inside of virtualBox running Debian and Speakup? I assume that it should in theory, but if not because of the virtualization, then plan B is doing the exact same thing while booting from something like Ubuntu on the USB. >> >> Yes, that should work, though I haven't done that in a while. You have >> to options here. First option is to define a serial port which would >> appear in your guest as a physical serial port, and you would set that >> up to interface to your USB serial port on the host. The second option >> is to dirrectly pass the USB serial adapter through to the guest. The >> virtualbox user's manual has more details. >> >> Greg >> >> >> -- >> web site: http://www.gregn.net >> gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc >> skype: gregn1 >> (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) >> If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. >> >> -- >> Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
