Linux Screen Reader 0.1.0

[Willem van der Walt]

I did and it works ok.
There are/were some problems with the rate and pitch settings, but with 
extra configuration that can be fixed.
What i have tested was the use of the generic speech-dispatcher module 
while running gnopernicus.



On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, hank smith wrote:

> has any one tried this?
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willem van der Walt" <wvdwalt at csir.co.za>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 11:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Linux Screen Reader 0.1.0
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>> You can these days use any speech that you can get going through 
>> speech-dispatcher as there is no a driver for speech-dispatcher in 
>> gnome-speech.
>> Regards, Willem
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Brent Harding wrote:
>> 
>>> I wonder if this is better than gnopernicus? I also wonder if I can use 
>>> any better sounding speech besides Festival which I don't particularly 
>>> care for? I have CD's around here somewhere of speakup Fedora core 3 or 4, 
>>> forget which now as I almost must use software speech some how unless I 
>>> can buy an ISA to PCI adapter card somewhere.
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hans Zoebelein" <hzo at gmx.de>
>>> To: <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 9:18 AM
>>> Subject: Linux Screen Reader 0.1.0
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Linux Screen Reader
>>>> 
>>>> A scriptable screen reader for the Linux GNOME desktop environment.
>>>> 
>>>> The Linux Screen Reader (LSR) is an application that transforms the
>>>> contents of the computer screen to other media, enabling non-visual
>>>> access to the graphical Gnome desktop environment. The basic function of
>>>> the screen reader is to report changes in the state of an application as
>>>> a user interacts with it using the keyboard or other system input
>>>> device. What is reported to the user and what commands are available for
>>>> controlling the screen reader are determined by cascading scripts that
>>>> completely define the user experience. The scripts can be loaded and
>>>> unloaded by the user at run time, and custom scripts can be written to
>>>> improve the usability of certain applications and interactions.
>>>> [...]
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/lsr?open&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR&ca=dgr-lnxd02awlsr
>>>> 
>>>> http://freshmeat.net/projects/lsr/?branch_id=63801&release_id=223206
>>>> 
>>>> Enjoy!
>>>> --Hans
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