RE: Which Linux + screen reader to choose?
- From: "Chris Hofstader" <chris.hofstader@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:17:39 -0400
If you really prefer Eloquence by a lot, you can get Via Voice (an Eloquence
derivative) for GNU/Linux machines.
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From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of public.niran
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 7:10 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Which Linux + screen reader to choose?
Everyone seems to be voting for ubuntu. What about fedora, gentoo etc? Does
setting up screen readers on those distros is harder?
Also after listening to eloquence for so long don't know how well the
synthes on linux sounds. Any thoughts on eSpeak, festival vs eloquence?
Thanks everyone,
Niran
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Dalton" <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: Which Linux + screen reader to choose?
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, public.niran wrote:
>
>> many linux distribution and many screen readers available.
>
> Lots of distros, not so many screenreaders though. Orca is the main
> graphical one and speakup is the main console one. I think there is one
> other cli one too... Oh and brltty is for your braille display is what I
> use and has some basic speech support...
> You need a braille display for the speech though.
>
>> I would like to know which linux distribution has most built in support
>> for screen readers. And is there any single, simple package containing
>> required
>
> Probably ubuntu, but debian has orca in aptitude. If you aren't a braille
> user speech in a text console is slightly more complicated.
> I recommend you get console speech so if gnome crashes you can fix it
> easily...
> If your not up to the task of patching your own kernel mail me off list
> and I'll give you a deb file which will install a 2.6.23 kernel with
> speakup if you like... (if you are using debian or ubuntu)
>
>> tools for
> screen readers (not too large in size!) > What you all think about lsr,
> orca, speakup etc?
>
> Well orca of course for the graphical stuff, speakup if you like for the
> console and lsr, I heard about it, but not sure how development is going
> with it...
>
> Orca will install a whole bunch of stuff so make sure you have a couple
> hundred mb or perhaps 1 gb for your linux install, gnome and your
> screenreader...
>
>> any inputs are welcome.
>
> Good luck,
>
> --
> Daniel Dalton
>
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/
> <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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