Re: [orca-list] yasr

[chrys87 web de]

Howdy Storm,

The last commits are dated to 2013 here
https://sourceforge.net/p/yasr/git/ci/4b2e42c81f2de65ccc4ebe90316f938d3cc4d08b/log/?path=


Am Di. Apr. 26 15:37:56 2016 GMT+0300 schrieb Storm Dragon:
> Howdy,
> Has this project been abandoned? The last date I can find with the project is 2002. I have made a PKGBUILD 
> that works to install it. I can not find any license info though, I assume gpl2?
> I can not get it to speek. I get errors when it tries to connect to speech-dispatcher:
> 2016/04/26 07:49:12 socat[9543] N accepting connection from AF=2 127.0.0.1:39948 on AF=2 127.0.0.1:6560
> 2016/04/26 07:49:12 socat[9543] N forked off child process 9710
> 2016/04/26 07:49:12 socat[9543] N listening on AF=2 0.0.0.0:6560
> 2016/04/26 07:49:12 socat[9710] N opening connection to AF=1 "/run/user/1000/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock"
> 2016/04/26 07:49:12 socat[9710] E connect(5, AF=1 "/run/user/1000/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock", 47): 
> Connection refused
>                                                                                                             
>               2016/
> 04/26 07:49:12 socat[9710] N exit(1)
>                                    2016/04/26 07:49:12 socat[9543] N childdied(): handling signal 17
>                                                                                                     
> 2016/04/26 07:49:12
> socat[9543] W waitpid(): child 9710 exited with status 1
>
> It seems to be a pretty neat concept, but the speech interface needs some work. Would it be worth forking 
> this project to sort of modernize it?  Peter, I remember you wrote an espeak interface for Orca a while 
> back, could you do the same for YASR? That would solve pretty much all the speech issues pretty affectively 
> if so.
> My PKGBUILD isn't quite ready for the AUR yet, I need to do a few more things like find out which license 
> it uses, and possibly write a systemd file for people who want to enable it at boot.
> Oh, and, isn't there another console reader called Jupitor or something? Anyone got that installed in Arch, 
> is it decent/more up to date?
> Thanks
> Storm
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:56:37PM +0200, Peter Vágner wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Some quick steps describing how I am running YASR on Arch linux.
> >
> > To clone and build yasr from git...
> >
> > git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/yasr/git yasr
> > cd yasr
> > rm missing
> > autoreconf -i
> > ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
> > make
> >
> > I like the fact yasr is portable thus it is not necessary to install it.
> > You will get a binary at ./yasr/yasr
> > Don't run it, prepare your personal config file first.
> > cp yasr.conf ~/.yasr.conf
> > And edit the file so yasr will talk to speech-dispatcher.
> > These lines have to be present and other similar other synth specific 
> > ones have to be commented out:
> > synthesizer=speech dispatcher
> > synthesizer port=127.0.0.1:6560
> > Now start speech-dispatcher if it's not running e.g. by running
> > spd-say "hello world"
> > Now run a socat command in background that will listen on the IP / 
> > port you have configured in ~/.yasr.conf and redirect it to the user 
> > specific speechd unix socket (thx Zahary for this tip):
> > socat -d -d TCP-LISTEN:6560,fork UNIX:/run/user/`id 
> > -u`/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock &
> >
> > And you should get yasr talking. Nice thing is that it handles UTF-8 
> > in terminal as it should, it is super responsive and if you are crazy, 
> > you can even run it within gnome terminal or other graphical terminal 
> > emulator.
> >
> > I know this should be packaged more nicelly and patched to dirrectly 
> > connect to speech-dispatcher. I have only started using it recently 
> > and I don't yet know how to do it, so perhaps I'll try to find a 
> > better way in the future.
> >
> > We have recently discussed it in slightly more details in the Sonar 
> > GNU linux support list with Kendel if you wish to look it up.
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
> > On 25.04.2016 at 20:43 Burt Henry wrote:
> > > Reading Peter's recommendation for an accessible raspberryPi setup I 
> > > was re-reminded of yasr.
> > > For those who have not heard of it, yasr is an old screenreader that 
> > > worked, and hopefully with a bit of tlc still works both in consoles 
> > > and in terminal emulators, e.g. gnome-terminal or lxterminal.
> > > It stopped working out of the box after Ubuntu 10.04 in that distro, 
> > > not sure about others.
> > > Recently I heard a guy got it to work pretty well on apple 
> > > computers' consoles, (or  wopuld that be terminal emulator 
> > > windows?/sorry, no Mac experience here).
> > > Anyway, I want to give it a try on one or more distros now. Any 
> > > experiences, tips or tricks that could save me from having to 
> > > reinvent the wheel as it were would be greatly appreciated.
> > > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca
> > Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/
> > GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
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