Re: [orca-list] yasr

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Just to say, followed instructions and it works right off on Vinux5.
Will try on arch next
It seemed to have a ton of stuff in a buffer though, and would not shut up. I killed it and it kept talking. 
How should I get it to just speak what I arrow over or other wise select or focus?
Thanks again for the instructions, and any use tips.


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  Peter Vágner wrote:
Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:56:37PM +0200

> 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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