accessibility/yasr 0.6.9_6 DragonFly

General-purpose console screen reader

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: LGPL20
Categories: accessibility
Package size: 57.1 KiB, 144.5 KiB installed

Description

YASR ("Yet Another Screen Reader") is an attempt at a lightweight, portable screen reader. It works by opening a shell in a pty and intercepting all user input/output, maintaining a window of what should be on the screen by looking at the codes and text sent to the screen. It thus uses no Linuxisms such as /dev/vcsa0 and does not necessarily need to be setuid root (the only requirement being that the user be able to access the tts device).

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

DragonFly

accessibility/yasr

0.6.9_6

FreeBSD

accessibility/yasr

0.6.9_6

NetBSD

audio/yasr

0.0.0.144nb2

MidnightBSD

accessibility/yasr

0.6.9

HardenedBSD

accessibility/yasr

0.6.9_6

GhostBSD

accessibility/yasr

0.6.9_6

Install

Binary package:

pkg install yasr

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/accessibility/yasr && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 1

devel/gettext-runtime

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

Yasr requires a text-to-speech engine to work. FreeBSD offers two: Festival
and FLite (Festival Lite). Edit the system configuration file
/usr/local/share/yasr/yasr.conf
or user configuration file ~/.yasr.conf and set "synthesizer" and
"synthesizer port".

NOTE: To use FLite requires the Emacspeak speech server eflite to be
installed.

EXAMPLES:

Festival
    synthesizer=festival
    sythesizer port=|/usr/local/bin/festival
Festival running as a server
    synthesizer=festival
    synthesizer port=127.0.0.1:1314
FLite
    synthesizer=Emacspeak server
    synthesizer port=|/usr/local/bin/eflite

See man page for more information.