[NFBCS] unix speech software:

[Mike Gorse]

I believe this was meant for the list. I'm still not really sure what you 
need, so I'll just discuss the various options. When I google Omnibox, it 
appears to be an API to register a keyword with Google Chrome's address 
bar.

I haven't used CentOS, but I see no reason that Orca wouldn't work with 
it. In theory, it should work on any GNOME-based system, including the 
BSDs.

There are various other console screen readers that others have mentioned. 
There's Speakup, which is a set of Linux kernel modules (only for Linux). 
Yasr is a console screen reader that I wrote a couple decades ago and 
should work on any Unix--it was designed not to rely on anything specific 
to Linux. It needs a synthesizer to generate speech, as does any screen 
reader. I use it in conjunction with eflite. Yasr also theoretically 
supports speech-dispatcher, which is the modern program that screen 
readers tend to use as a back end to generate speech, but its support 
needs some updating that I haven't taken the time to do. I've recently 
moved yasr and eflite to github and intend to make any future 
improvements there:
https://github.com/mgorse/yasr
https://github.com/mgorse/eflite

Fenrir is another, more modern screen reader for the console. I'm unsure 
whether it is tied to Linux.

You shouldn't need an external speech synthesizer nowadays.

If you're logging in to a Unix system remotely and don't need the gui, 
then you'd use a ssh client from your computer. These exist for, say, 
Windows, so you wouldn't need a Unix screen reader in that case.

On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, charleseblack at att.net wrote:

> I realize that I didn't offer much information. I am working on an omnibox
> distro. I believe that we will just be using terminal interface for class
> because that is what we did for Windows. I need something that doesn't use
> an external speech synthesizer as I am not in ownership of one. Orca works
> with Linux; or so I thought. Also, Coes anyone know of a speech program that
> works with Cintos? Does Orca work with that Linux distro. I have used Kali
> and other Linux distros. Thanks!
>
> Charles E. Black, MS.
> charleseblack at att.net
> (803)463-0040
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Gorse <mike at straddlethebox.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 8, 2019 4:30 PM
> To: Charles E. Black via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: charleseblack at att.net
> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] unix speech software:
>
> Is this Linux, or another Unix? I'm guessing the latter, since you didn't
> mention Linux specifically, but I thought that I'd check, since there are
> some screen readers that are Linux-specific. Also, are you using a GUI, or
> do you want something that will work from a console, or both? I'm assuming
> that you're working on a Unix system directly, rather than logging into one
> remotely.
>
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Charles E. Black via NFBCS wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of a speech program that works in Unix? I need it for
> work.
>> Thanks?
>>
>> Charles E. Black, MS.
>> charleseblack at att.net
>> (803)463-0040
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: [NFBCS] Chrome & PDF's
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>> Hi All,
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>>
>>
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