[BRLTTY] configuring brltty as a screenreader

[kendell clark]

hi
I don't mind helping you in the slightest. My main problem is that every
time I think I have it, something messes up and I have to go back to the
drawing board. I'm determined to fix this if at all possible. Brltty is
a fantastic software project and it needs more attention from the open
source community than it gets. Just as a curiosity, would it be possible
to configure brltty to listen on both usb, serial and bluetooth
simultaneously for braille displays, that way a person can simply hook
up their display and have it work, or does it automatically do that? If
I can manage to get it speaking, I'll share my steps on this list so
everyone can benefit.
Thanks
Kendell Clark


Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Mark Peveto on 2016/05/30 at 22:02 -0500]
>
>> I'm wondering what all needs to be configured to use brltty as a screen 
>> reader.  
> For a braille screen reader, all the defaults tend to be all you need. The 
> exception to this is spcifying the braille device if it's Bluetooth or serial 
> since the default braille device is USB autodetection.
>
>> I"ve set the speech driver, or at least I think I have.  I'm not sure if I 
>> need to set it for espeak, or speech dispatcher.  
> We can't tell you what you should set the speech driver to. That depends 
> entirely on which one you'd prefer to use.
>
>> Like Kendell, it's monotone when it speaks, but at this point, if i can get 
>> this console speaking, it'd make my day.  
> Are you, then, wanting to use brltty as a speech screen reader?
>
>> Wrokign with f123, a manjaro based distro.  I know kendell's working on it for 
>> sonar, but I'd like to learn how to apply this for f123, too.  I'm not trying 
>> to compete, 
> :-) It's not competition when more than one user is wanting to achieve a 
> similar goal. In fact, combining efforts is often the most efficient way to go.
>
>> I just wanna see 'em both talk, so would like to learn how to configure this 
>> myself, if someone on this list is willing to help me learn. Since Kendell's 
>> tackling it, I thought of asking him, but Kendell, friend, I know you've got 
>> yoru hanbds full with all you'e got going and don't have the time to help me 
>> with a curiosity project. 
> The truth is that all of us have our hands full. Not only with brltty, by the 
> way. Some of us have families, some of us play in orchestras, some of us are 
> dating, some of us have jobs that earn our income, some of us allocate time to 
> religious involvement, etc. We all have full lives.
>