Does anyone have a guide to the E speak screen reader?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Good summary!

Just an additional note: the speakup kernel driver can be used with
a hardware synthesizer, without any software synthesizer.

Cheers, Didier

Le 05/10/2020 à 16:10, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
> Honestly, I can't blame the OP for getting the name wrong, there are
> quite a number of packages that work together with rather confusing
> names.
> 
> That said, he's a break down for the OP:
> 
> 1. speakup is a kernel module that provides screenreader
> functionality, but which is rather useless on its own.
> 2. espeak is one of several text-to-speech engines available for
> Linux. Technically deprecated and superceded by espeak-ng, but not
> quite everything that uses it has migrated yet.
> 3. espeakup serves as a bridge between speakup and espeak, allowing
> the former to use the latter to actually synthesize what it's reading.
> 
> All three combined form what is probably  the most widely used
> accessibility stack on talking, command-line only Linux systems, but
> are far from the only option available. Unfortunately, because of
> their similar names, people frequently refer to the whole stack by one
> of it's components or get the names of different components mixed up
> and even I sometimes get confused as to whether a poster is talking
> about the stack as a whole, one of its components, or which component
> they're talking about.
> 
> To add to the confusion, there's also speechd-up, which serves a
> similar purpose to espeakup, but bridges speakup to speech-dispatcher,
> itself a bridge that provides a consistent interface between screen
> readers and speech synths, and there's piespeakup, a fork of espeakup
> written for the Raspberry Pi to get around some bugs in the Pi's sound
> system.
> 
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