From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,NICE_REPLY_A,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 26838 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2022 19:18:20 -0000 Received: from hurricane.the-brannons.com (2602:ff06:725:1:20::25) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 9 Sep 2022 19:18:20 -0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id fa56552f for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2022 12:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.pcdesk.net (mail.pcdesk.net [69.28.94.151]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPS id fe2f7d6b (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO) for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2022 12:18:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=pcdesk.net; s=pcdesk20210713; t=1662751092; bh=Ok/qaOJ9/ZJqnBlk7+nBunJobWNtyvhTTbqBGOrC7ic=; l=1867; h=Date:Subject:To:References:From:In-Reply-To; b=wrwo9I6kXqm2I85SxeAHBQEN+OGbLaPKltBNPRP9xFsXJVHkCF9ilZ+tzxcVhXd8j Ku1HcZcEKVqd2RHw7+JbHlWT++cj6EbTjFAeQbK8Q5zbZGZR2xol99naU2/ojeJ8Xj KYizP9MWeL1CHLNhK0rQw7DImr6JWZK+I5fd8lXzlyTYmoc2tiNTXKOYXRSWezCNG2 KtwJ73ni4d/izDig1BEOx4wEI08MXVyxnETx0Z8JgkVrOgBz6NkmkpoUwK+2VQi//1 nR6eA9R5iBxn3zNfWGhcZw1vFHut3lGMIXa3crqrZST6mXlB/NcUiZ9N61fG7uI+p0 wUDvA38DhkpHA== Original-Subject: Re: Cli-focused screen reader Author: Tyler Spivey Received: from [192.168.1.73] ([::ffff:99.199.166.163]) (AUTH: LOGIN tspivey@pcdesk.net, TLS: TLSv1.3,256bits,TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by mail.pcdesk.net with ESMTPSA id 0000000000041DBF.00000000631B9174.0000A865; Fri, 09 Sep 2022 15:18:12 -0400 Message-ID: <789a4e25-e4e0-64e1-b9e1-ace1ca79e522@pcdesk.net> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 12:18:09 -0700 X-BeenThere: edbrowse-dev@edbrowse.org List-Id: Edbrowse Development List MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.13.0 Subject: Re: Cli-focused screen reader Content-Language: en-US To: Patrick Smyth , edbrowse-dev@edbrowse.org References: <87czc4wgl6.fsf@gmail.com> From: Tyler Spivey In-Reply-To: <87czc4wgl6.fsf@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > > > >