[BRLTTY] configuring brltty as a screenreader

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

Why are you trying to do that?  There are better alternatives, such as
speakup, or if you like emacs emacspeak.

Mark Peveto <southernprince73 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I get that. I'm heavily involved in my church as well.  But to answer your question, I'm not using a braille display.  I want to use brltty as a speech
> screen reader.
> 
> Mark Peveto
> Registered Linux user number 600552
> Sent from F123 visual using alpine 2.20.13
> 
> 
> On Mon, 30 May 2016, 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.
> >
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