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Re: [orca-list] yasr

I'd say it's definitely worth forking the project and doing whatever. 
We need options in case espeak is not converted to run in user space when systemd takes over managing 
consoles and the vt code is removed from the 
kernel. 
I'd certainly want a working speakup when this happens, but we may or may not need new speakup developers 
working on it, i.e. nothing is being planed,  
much coded as far as I know, and I am some what in touch with the guy who wrote it and others who have been 
close to the project in the past.
I don't remember just how good yasr is, or was when I used it a bit, but will get to testing it tonight 
hopefully.
 

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  Storm Dragon wrote:
Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 08:37:56AM -0400


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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