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Title: yasr
Post by: Jason W on May 31, 2009, 10:05:54 PM

Thanks to mcewanw for yasr:

There is also some well written usage notes in this file:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/tce/src/yasr/yasr_usageNotes.txt

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Title:          yasr.tce
Description:    Yasr is a general-purpose console screen reader. TESTING / EXPERIMENTAL
Version:        0.6.9
Author:         Michael P. Gorse
Original-site:  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/yasr/yasr-0.6.9.tar.gz
Copying-policy: GPL v2
Size: 29KB
Extension_by:   mcewanw
Comments:       
    This extension is PPI compatible.
Built and tested on TC2.0rc2.1
Yasr can use espeak for Text to Speech output via speech-dispatcher.
To use with speech-dispatcher and espeak (if both are also
installed), open a console (or at the commandline) enter:
    sudo speech-dispatcher
yasr
Anything appearing on the console should now be read by espeak.
(Press alt-x to temporarily silence yasr).
Note: To kill the speech system (one method anyway...):
first kill yasr by closing the console from which yasr was activated
and then in another console enter: sudo killall speech-dispatcher
(Other methods often leave behind zombie processes).
You can control what/how sentences are read (chars, words etc):  
  Press ctrl alt o to select yasr options,
      And press key s until you hear "synthesiser option"
      Tap the right cursor key once to hear the word "rate"
      space bar (or a further tap on the right cursor key) lets you
  then alter that rate (i.e. the speed of e speak speaking). If
  you change you mind about entering a new value, press escape key
  to abort, and then continue selecting options if you wish by
  pressing s (or the up/down cursor key).
      Alternatively, one you first hear the word "rate", continually
  tapping down cursor key will take you through all of the
  synthesiser options:
      rate, pitch, volume, language, output module (for cases where you
  have an alternative speech synthesiser to e speak), punctuation
  (whatever punctuation you want spoken)
      Then press escape key to leave the options and ctrl alt s to
  save as before.
  Read uploaded to TC forum: yasr_usageNotes.txt for key-bindings
  used with yasr to read, for example, previous line, next line,
  next word, whole screen, silence yasr and so on.

Change-log:     --------
Current:        2009/06/01 First version 0.6.9



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Title:          yasr.tcz
Description:    Yasr is a general-purpose console screen reader. TESTING / EXPERIMENTAL
Version:        0.6.9
Author:         Michael P. Gorse
Original-site:  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/yasr/yasr-0.6.9.tar.gz
Copying-policy: GPL v2
Size: 32KB
Extension_by:   mcewanw
Comments:       
    This extension is PPI compatible.
Built and tested on TC2.0rc2.1
Yasr can use espeak for Text to Speech output via speech-dispatcher.
To use with speech-dispatcher and espeak (if both are also
installed), open a console (or at the commandline) enter:
    sudo speech-dispatcher
yasr
Anything appearing on the console should now be read by espeak.
(Press alt-x to temporarily silence yasr).
Note: To kill the speech system (one method anyway...):
first kill yasr by closing the console from which yasr was activated
and then in another console enter: sudo killall speech-dispatcher
(Other methods often leave behind zombie processes).
You can control what/how sentences are read (chars, words etc):  
  Press ctrl alt o to select yasr options,
      And press key s until you hear "synthesiser option"
      Tap the right cursor key once to hear the word "rate"
      space bar (or a further tap on the right cursor key) lets you
  then alter that rate (i.e. the speed of e speak speaking). If
  you change you mind about entering a new value, press escape key
  to abort, and then continue selecting options if you wish by
  pressing s (or the up/down cursor key).
      Alternatively, one you first hear the word "rate", continually
  tapping down cursor key will take you through all of the
  synthesiser options:
      rate, pitch, volume, language, output module (for cases where you
  have an alternative speech synthesiser to e speak), punctuation
  (whatever punctuation you want spoken)
      Then press escape key to leave the options and ctrl alt s to
  save as before.
  Read uploaded to TC forum: yasr_usageNotes.txt for key-bindings
  used with yasr to read, for example, previous line, next line,
  next word, whole screen, silence yasr and so on.

Change-log:     --------
Current:        2009/06/01 First version 0.6.9



Title: Re: yasr
Post by: fos on June 01, 2009, 12:40:36 PM

Thanks again from a low vision user!