I've used festival a little bit. It isn't a "screen reader" per se, it will read text you feed it. For instance, I use mutt for my mail client. Mutt has a pipe command (|) that will output the email to a program. I can pipe it to a shell script that I wrote that filters out From, Date, message-id and other junk lines. It then passes the output to festival and out of my soundcard comes the synthesized voice reading my email.
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ Cory On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:34:17PM -0700, Master O Planets wrote: > I have been working with some blind computer users in Eugene and I would > like to do some experimenting in the use of screen readers under Linux. > > I found this article, as well as the site, to be of interest of Linux users. > > http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2002-10-09-1 > > I would like to use a screen reader/recorder that could capture articles on > this site for conversion to MP3's or Ogg's that I could listen to. I've > been told that the "disembodied voice of typical screen readers can get > quite annoying and I wanted to experience it for myself under field > conditions. What is out there? > > P.S. Not necessarily psyched about primary use of this Supercluster, but, > heck I was in a Nuke missile unit when the Wall came down in '89. > > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
