Hi Bob, I think you might have followed a little bit of a red herring to get here. Festival is a text to speech engine, and from what your e-mail has said, it sounds like you need a screen reader.
Linux isn't always the best at accessibility (especially with KDE), but there are some distributions which, I've been lead to believe, work very well with a screen reader. If you can cope with the Gnome interface, the LTS (Long Term Support) version of Ubuntu has accessibility "out of the box" - although the more recent versions are struggling to cope with the massive overhall to the User Interface (Unity). For some details, it might be worth looking at this page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Accessibility For context, I have not had to use these tools for day-to-day working, and I use festival as part of my music podcasting, but I listen to a lot of podcasts, many of whom have discussed issues of Accessibility, particularly around the loss or imparement of eyesight. I hope I have helped you, at least a little bit! All the best, and good luck, Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On Oct 25, 2011 2:55 AM, "Bob Stia" <[email protected]> wrote: > message from Bob Stia <[email protected]> to festival-talk > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Hello > > I recently downloaded and installed Festival on my > openSUSE 11.3 distro. I can only make it work in > Konsole with text I copied there from the command line. > > I need Festival as an aid for me in the near future. > I have macular degeneration and my eyesight is rapidly > getting worse. Hopefully I will be able to use it on most > apps suvh as web pages, documents, etc. Please tell me > that is possible. > > I have searched google and everywhere else that I can > think of for some how-to or manual so that I can use it > effestively/ > > I hope that some kind soul on this list can point me in the > right direction. > > Bob S > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > = University of Edinburgh's Festival Speech Synthesis System = > = http://festvox.org/festival Sent Via [email protected] = > = To unsubscribe mail [email protected] = > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > >
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