SBL

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi,
I forgot to say, that I use Fedora 25, 32 bit.
Also:
/usr/sbin/kbdsniffd
was not made executable by the install process, so I had to do it by hand:
sudo chmod +x /usr/sbin/kbdsniffd

Also, I had to make a symbolic link in /dev/input/uinput to /dev/uinput:
sudo ln -s /dev/uinput /dev/input/uinput

Which reminds me, that you have to load the uinput kernel module, if you don't have it loaded already:
sudo modprobe uinput

Both kbdsniffd and sbl should be run as root or with sudo.
kbdsniffd should be already running before you start sbl.

-- 
Best wishes,
Zahari

  Zahari Yurukov wrote:
Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:13:07PM +0300

> Hi,
> Ok, the name of the synth should actually be the name of the module,
> wich is speechd for speech-dispatcher.
> You can also set it in /etc/sbl.conf
> The language could be set in /etc/sbl/spk/speechd
> 
> For kbdsniffd I did only:
> make
> sudo make install
> 
> Although I have many development packages installed already.
> 
> For sbl I had to install  bluez-libs-devel and  libusb-devel.
> And then again:
> make
> sudo make install
> 
> But before that, I had to edit sbl/speechdlib.h:
> diff --git i/sbl/speechdlib.h w/sbl/speechdlib.h
> index 5462407..bd67488 100644
> --- i/sbl/speechdlib.h
> +++ w/sbl/speechdlib.h
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  #ifndef _SPEECHDLIB_H
>   #define _SPEECHDLIB_H
> 
>   -#include <libspeechd.h>
>   +#include <speech-dispatcher/libspeechd.h>
>    //#define _SPEECHD_H
> 
>     void speechd_close ();
> 
> The Orca directory, which I mentioned in my previous message is:
> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/orca
> On my system it's found in:
> /usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/orca
> That didn't cause problems though.
> 
> So sbl is working here with speech.
> Unfortunately for me, no unicode support.
> 
> I can't find help mode, and the manual explains only command options.
> The keymap files are installed in:
> /etc/sbl/keymap/
> So i reviewed them (A little hard to read without vowels). 
> At first glans I don't  find anything special, which speakup or yasr didn't have.
> Fenrir has much more functions, for example. But again, unfortunately for me, no unicode support for now.
> However, sbl is very responsive here, which is a big plus.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best wishes,
> Zahari
> 
>   Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 04:36:55PM +0000
> 
> > I've previously purged Firefox, Orca, python, and my Xserver to see
> > how much my install would shrink if I ever found a satisfactory
> > text-mode web browser without breaking console speech provided by SBL,
> > and I have no trouble switching on the fly betwen a minimal x-session
> > housing Firefox voiced by Orca and a text terminal voiced by SBL, nor
> > do I recall any problems when Orca switch to Python3.
> > 
> > Granted, I've never successfully setup SBL from scratch myself and
> > have no idea what Klaus Knopper did to get it running in Knoppix.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Sincerely,
> > 
> > Jeffery Wright
> > President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa.
> > Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle.
> > 
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