Re: Cli-focused screen reader

[Tyler Spivey <tspivey@pcdesk.net>]

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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