Speakup is the way I do it, at least on linux, because if the synthesizer supports, indexing is alive and so I don't have to use pgdn or something to get to a new page. Braille is quite useful and the cursor follows, so brltty works. Braille is slower for me, but very useful.
On Fri, 01 Nov 2019 06:56:17 -0400, Shérab wrote: > > Dear all, > > Very often, I would like to read long texts such as books and find > myself not doing it because it feels to me it would take just too much > time and/or energy, since I find reading in braille very slow for long > texts. On the other hand, reading such texts with a speech synthesis > system might be faster and less tiring, but then it feels to me I would > miss potentially important information by not seeing how things are > spelled or missing some typographic indication. > > I hove two main questions to those of you who feel they are able to go > through long texts in a way which they feel is both efficient and > comfortable. > > 1. How are you doing that? Which tools are you using? > > 2. Do you feel that certain tools, if they would exist, would make your > life even more easy? Which tools should that be? > > Best wishes, > > Shérab. > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] > For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una [email protected] _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
