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# fenrir (Alfa)
An TTY screenreader for Linux.
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Its an early alpha version. You can test it. It is not recommended for production use. In theorie its not limited to linux. but i currently only provide drivers for that because I have no ohter system here. If you want to help or write drivers to make it work on other systems, just let me know.
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# requirements (core)
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- linux
- python3
- python-evdev
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- loaded uinput kernel module
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- Read permission to the following files:
- /sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty0/active
- /dev/vcsa[1-64]
- ReadWrite permission
- /dev/input
- /dev/uinput
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- speech, sound or braille drivers see "optional (features, drivers)".
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# optional (features, drivers)
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- "espeak" speech driver:
- python-espeak
- "speechd" speech driver:
- speech-dispatcher
- python-speechd
- brltty braille driver (not implemented yet, WIP):
- brltty (configured and running)
- python-brlapi
- "generic" sound driver:
- sox
- "gstreamer" sound driver
- gstreamer 1.x
- GLib
- spellchecker
- python-pyenchant
- aspell-YourLanguageCode (example aspell-en for us english)
- unix daemon:
- python-daemonize
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# installation
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- Archlinux: PKGBUILD in AUR
- install.sh (there is currently no uninstall)
- run from git:
You can just run the following as root:
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cd src/fenrir-package/
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sudo ./fenrir
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Settings "settings.conf" is located in the "config" directory.
Take care that the used drivers in the config matching your installed drivers.
By default it uses:
- sound driver: generic (via sox, could configured in settings.conf)
- speech driver: speechd
- braille driver: brltty (WIP)
