[BRLTTY] speech with brltty

[Mario Lang]

Daniel Dalton <d.dalton at iinet.net.au> writes:

> 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?

You have to select a speech driver, just like you have to
select a braille driver for your display.  Either edit
/etc/brltty.conf, uncommenting the appropriate speech driver, or
specify the speech driver at the brltty command line
with -s.

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