[BRLTTY] brltty new user

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

Why just compile your own kernel and you can have whatever you want?

Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
> The device is something like /dev/svca. I haven't done anything with it myself, but maybe it could be useful.
> Speakup is a great screen reader. I personally love it and would happily be using it now, except the Odroid kernel doesn't include staging, so no speakup for me. I have to find an alternative. I have been using full graphical for a while now. Brltty has at least gotten me back partially to where I want to be. A lot of people think the screen reader doesn't belong in the kernel. Personally I could care less if it is in the kernel or user space, just so long as it works. I don't care about the politics, just the functionality lol, and speakup rocks.
> As for getting it working with pulse, I can't take credit for
> that. Chrys figured that out. You just have to drop in 2 files and it
> will start playing nicely together. I have attached them here. The
> client.conf goes in the pulse config for root: Place the default.pa in
> your ~/.config/pulse directory
> Finally restart pulseaudio or reboot your computer and it should work. Sometimes brltty speech will be crackly, so just do a sudo systemctl restart brltty and it should fix it. Speech with espeak is a bit too quiet even on loudest setting, but other than that, it is very responsive and quite nice to use.
> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 09:21:58PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> >[quoted lines by Storm Dragon on 2016/07/02 at 18:24 -0400]
> >
> >>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.
> >
> >Brltty has a command (KPPeriod + KP7) to go up to the previous command prompt,
> >and another command (KPPlus + KP2) to speak from where you are down to the
> >bottom of the screen. I think that these commands, when used together,
> >effectively do what's being asekd for. I suppose, if there's a need, we could
> >add a third command that does both of them.
> >
> >>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.
> >
> >I'm unaware of any such device.
> >
> >>I was finally told that brltty could act as a screen reader,
> >
> >Just to be picky: Brltty is a screen reader. It's just that it's primary target
> >is braille users. I think that you're referring to speech-oriented screen
> >readers.
> >
> >This brings me to a question: There seems to have been a significant growth in
> >those looking at brltty to be their speech screen reader lately. Does anyone
> >know why? Is Speakup, for some reason, no longer the speech screen reader of
> >choice?
> >
> >And, while I'm asking questions, I have another one for you: There's a guy on
> >this list who's been trying to get brltty's espeak speech driver, via Pulse
> >Audio, to work reliably. From what you've written, you seem to have figured out
> >how to do it. Would you mind describing how you've set all this stuff up on
> >your system?
> >
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