[BRLTTY] brltty new user

[Storm Dragon]

Howdy,
It can make for a lot of speaking. But there's usually a silence speech key to interupt if you don't want to hear what is being spoken. Also, most screen readers have a setting, in a lot of cases default, that interupts incoming speech whenever you press anything on the keyboard, typing a word, pressing shift, etc.
I seem to remember hearing about something in /dev that con provide the screen's output for updates to the screen, but that nothing currently uses it, speakup included. There is another reader called yasr, but it is abandonware as far as I can tell.
Another option was something called jupiter with acsint, but I couldn't get it to compile. I am running an ARMv7 machine, and it required the kernel headers to compile into the kernel, which I did install, but then it ran into other problems.
I was finally told that brltty could act as a screen reader, and I installed it and it works great for the most part. The mutt support is spectacular. I think it actually does better than speakup with mutt.
I am learning to work around the no autospeaking thing, but it sure would be nice to have lol.
Thanks
Storm
On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 02:28:31PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
>[quoted lines by Storm Dragon on 2016/07/02 at 08:54 -0400]
>
>>Oh, I must be misunderstanding what autoread is supposed to do.
>
>I assume you mean autospeak. What brltty's autospeak feature does is to speak
>changes to the current line. It has various subsettings so that you can
>optionally have different types of changes spoien, e.g. typed characters,
>deleted characters, replaced characters, selected characters, etc.
>
>>I wonder if y'all would consider adding a setting to read text as it comes in?
>>It would make mudding and some other tasks a lot easier.
>
>This is probably somethnig that Speakup does. Since it's within the kernel, it
>can easily hook into the place where characters are written to the screen.
>Brltty can't do that quite so easily because it runs outside the kernel and can
>only inspect what's currently on the screen.
>
>As far as I can recall, you're the first user who's asking for this feature.
>I'm wondering, therefore, out of ignorance and curiosity more than anything
>else, how it'd make a task easier as it could mean a lot of extra speaking. The
>way we'd tackle it from a braille perspective would be to use the brltty
>command that goes back to the previous command prompt, and then to start
>reading forward from there.
>
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