From: "Patrick Smyth" <patricksmyth@fastmail.com>
To: "Tyler Spivey" <tspivey@pcdesk.net>
Cc: edbrowse-dev@edbrowse.org
Subject: Re: Cli-focused screen reader
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 15:31:51 -0400 [thread overview]
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Hey, thanks all for weighing in on this. I got it working, it turns out pyenv, an environment manager for Python, was shadowing the Python version. tdsr is more or less exactly what I was looking for, which is to read the output of commands and review by line, word, and character. Thanks for developing it, Tyler. (And it works well with Edbrowse.)
Have a good day, everyone.
Patrick
On Fri, Sep 9, 2022, at 6:22 PM, Patrick Smyth wrote:
> Hi Tyler,
>
> Seems I already have it installed:
>
> python3-speechd is already the newest version (0.9.1-4)
>
> Could it be some kind of path issue? I'm not sure how to get the
> python3 on my system to recognize the bindings.
>
>
> Best,
> Patrick
>
>
>
>
> Tyler Spivey <tspivey@pcdesk.net> writes:
>
> > Try installing the python3-speechd package.
> >
> > On 9/9/2022 11:25 AM, Patrick Smyth wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> Apologies if this is a basic or trivial question, but I wanted
> >> to ask
> >> about setting up screen readers for the command line on Linux.
> >> I am using Linux Mint (functionally Ubuntu LTS), and while I
> >> can use Orca to
> >> read X11 terminals, it's quite slow and annoying to use, and
> >> I'd prefer something specific to the terminal. I'm also pretty
> >> happy with speakup
> >> when I drop out of the graphical interface, so not looking for
> >> anything there.
> >> I've tried a couple command-line specific screen readers, and
> >> I've had a
> >> lot of trouble getting them to work. The two I've tried
> >> recently are tdsr (https://github.com/tspivey/tdsr) and fenrir
> >> (https://github.com/chrys87/fenrir). Setting aside Fenrir,
> >> since the setup is a lot more involved, when I run tdsr I get
> >> the following error
> >> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'speechd'
> >> I have speech dispatcher installed with aptitude (apt-get
> >> install
> >> speech-dispatcher). I downloaded the speech dispatcher project
> >> from GitHub and tried importing the Python API, but it gives me
> >> a circular
> >> import issue. Here's the speech dispatcher repo on GitHub,
> >> there's a clients folder with a Python library:
> >> https://github.com/brailcom/speechd
> >> If people have gotten speech dispatcher for Python or the tdsr
> >> screen
> >> reader working, I'd appreciate any guidance. If people are more
> >> familiar with fenrir, I can try to articulate where I'm stuck
> >> with that, but it's
> >> significantly more involved as a setup process. And apologies
> >> if edbrowse isn't the place for this kind of question, though
> >> it seems
> >> fairly likely some of us are using CLI screen readers in this
> >> community.
> >> Thanks, and hope you have a good end of the week!
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Patrick
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-14 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-09 18:25 Patrick Smyth
2022-09-09 18:36 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2022-09-09 19:28 ` Adam Thompson
2022-09-09 19:38 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2022-09-09 19:18 ` Tyler Spivey
2022-09-09 22:22 ` Patrick Smyth
2022-09-14 19:31 ` Patrick Smyth [this message]
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