Hi Felix,
Personally glad you asked the question. Someone is apparently working on a
comparative project for Linux now..allowing me to share this project with
them.
While I do use speech, I do not use emulation.
Still, since this project can work with other DOS screen reader packages,
have you tried, say ASAP here?
I ask because more robust as it were screen reader programs give the user
far more control options over things like spoken characters.
For example, ASAP, if memory serves, lets you set both how sentence use of
a period is spoken, and mathematical use of a period are spoken.
It is possible? the error is tied to the not quite transfer via the
adapter.
Does that resonate?
Kare
On Sun, 8 Feb 2026, Felix G. via Freedos-user wrote:
Hello Mateusz,
I apologize if reviving such an ancient thread might go against the
rules of this list. Please let me know and I shall refrain from doing
that in the future.
I am trying to use Provox in DOSBox-X, connected via virtual nullmodem
cable to a Braille'n'Speak emulator. Since you are a ProVox user
yourself, maybe you have an idea how to keep ProVox from announcing
every punctuation character it encounters, such as period, greater
than, or colon. The ProVox manual says to turn the punctuation setting
to zero (press slash followed by F5 until zero is announced), which I
did. Still, I get all those punctuation characters pronounced in
words, and a virtual COM port monitor tells me that those words are
going over the virtual wire.
Any help is much appreciated.
Best,
Felix
Am Di., 26. Nov. 2024 um 14:46 Uhr schrieb Mateusz Viste via
Freedos-user <[email protected]>:
Today I prepared a Raspberry Pi image that contains the Raspberry
operating system, emubns, espeak and Piper, along with some glue and
duct tape to hold it all together.
I have named this contraption the "Rasp 'n Speak". It is an emulation of
a Braille 'n Speak synthesizer.
When the Rasp 'n Speak is connected to a DOS PC with a USB-to-Serial
cable, it provides a Braille 'n Speak interface for screen readers. It
means that a screen reader like PROVOX, ASAP or JAWS will be be able to
detect a Braille 'n Speak device and produce actual speech through the
Rasp 'n Speak.
I tested it by connecting a Raspberry 3 to the COM1 port of my 386 with
PROVOX, worked fine for me. I did not make any extensive tests, so YMMV.
It uses espeak by default, but can be easily configured to use Piper
instead, albeit Piper is somewhat slow on a RPi3. Hopefully it should
work better on a RPi4.
More information on the project's website.
https://emubns.sourceforge.net/raspnspeak/
Mateusz
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