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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