Console screenreaders

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hello,

I have found a source package for SBL:
http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/jump/15.2/repo/oss/src/sbl-3.5.0.20130317.git7a75bc29-2.46.src.rpm

I will try to build it and add it to the Slint main repository

Cheers, Didier
Didier Spaier
Slint maintainer
https://slint.fr

Le 30/09/2020 à 20:54, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
> I'm personally a fan of SBL, particularly for it's
> hold down caps lock and use arrow keys to navigate the screen like a
> text document" style of screen review and it generally only reading
> the output from verbose commands that I tell it too instead of trying
> to read absolutely everything like espeakup does... though admittedly,
> I prefer espeakup's more verbose style when playing classic infocom
> text adventures in Fizmo or Frotz since I don't have to manually
> review the output of every action. I also find SBL works better with
> scrolling curses-basedapps as espeakup has a bad habit of reading a
> line that just scrolled on screen instead of the line that just came
> into focus when the two happen simultaneously.
> 
> Sadly, SBL is, as far as I know, only available for OpenSUse and
> Knoppix as a precompiled package, and even then, Knoppix only has an
> i386 version and the .deb isn't readily available ever since Alioth
> was taken offline and too the Knoppix repository with it. SBL isn't in
> active development either as far as I know, though I can't say I've
> noticed any issues with the current version's age.
> 
> About all I know about Fenrir is that it's userland-based while
> espeakup requires the speakup kernel module and that it's written in
> Python. I believe it also uses Speech dispatcher, which might make
> using software speech synths other than espeak/espak-ng easier in some
> cases(I've never had issues with espeak-ng, so I can't really comment
> on other synths).
> 
> I know even less about YASR than Fenrir, but I understand it requires
> a hardware speech synth to function properly.
> 
> 
> -Jeffery
> 
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