[BRLTTY] speech with brltty

Daniel Dalton d.dalton at iinet.net.au
Fri Mar 14 20:08:42 EDT 2008


On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by Daniel Dalton on 2008/02/21 at 22:19 +1100]
>
>> How do I get brltty talking with speech-dispatcher?
>>
>> And then will it read as I use the arrows? (Like other screenreaders?)
>>
>> What is the command to get this going?
>> I still want braille with my braille note too...
>
> If you mean that you'd like brltty to speak all the time, e.g. as you type and
> as you move the cursor, then you need to turn on the AutoSpeak feature. The
> BrailleNote has no key binding for this, but you can still enable it via
> brltty's preferences menu.

Not sure if I replied earlier. But I turned auto speak on.
So now how do I tell it to use festival or speech dispatcher?
And what else do I need to do to make it speak?
I would really like to get this working so I don't need to patch a kernel 
for speech...

Thanks for your help,

-- 
Daniel Dalton

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