I definitely agree voiceover is superior with the selection of voices and the customization they are from my own limited experience so far. If I understand you correctly, you created essentially a keyboard shortcut that does exactly what I have been trying to do? How can you do this? Thank you, -Reece > On Dec 18, 2020, at 12:01 PM, dan d. <dandunfee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I use voiceover in the mac terminal, even as I write this. The quality and intelligibility and control of the voices is far superior to > anything one can get with a cconsole screen reader, that is what keeps me from using linux. alone. > > There are a ffew prior selections required, the most imporant is to interact with the terminal; mac users will know what that means. At that > point one can use the standard voiceover cursor commands to read the screen systematically. Some, like read screen from the top reqqquires > two commands because one doesn't want the title line reade everytime. One command goes to the top of the screen, the second goes down one > line and begins reading. I used a key commander to combine both steps and assigned it to a single key combination. > >> On Thu, 17 Dec 2020, Zachary Kline wrote: >> >> 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. 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