Fenrir

An TTY screenreader for Linux. In theorie its not limited to linux. but i currently only provide drivers for that because I do not have an ohter system here. If you want to help or write drivers to make it work on other systems, just let me know. This software is licensed under the LGPL v3 .

Requirements (core)

• linux (currently only screen and input drivers available for that)
• python3 >= 3.3
• python-configargparse
• screen, input, speech, sound or braille drivers see "Features, Drivers, Extras".

Features, Drivers, Extras

Input Drivers:

• "evdevDriver" input driver for linux evdev
  • python-evdev >=0.6.3
  • loaded uinput kernel module
  • ReadWrite permission
    • /dev/input
    • /dev/uinput

Screen Drivers:

• "vcsaDriver" screen driver for linux VCSA devices
  • Read permission to the following files:
    • /sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty0/active
    • /dev/vcsa[1-64]

Speech Drivers:

• "espeakDriver" speech driver for espeak:
  • python-espeak
• "speechdDriver" speech driver for speech-dispatcher:
  • speech-dispatcher
  • python-speechd
• "dummyDriver" speech driver for debugging

Braille Drivers:

• "brlttyDriver" braille driver (WIP):
  • brltty (configured and running)
  • python-brlapi
• "dummyDriver" braille driver for debugging

Sound Drivers:

• "genericDriver" sound driver for sound as subprocess:
  • sox
• "gstreamerDriver" sound driver for gstreamer
  • gstreamer >=1.0
  • GLib
• "dummyDriver" sound driver for debugging

Extra:

• spellchecker
  • python-pyenchant
  • aspell-YourLanguageCode (example aspell-en for us english)
• unix daemon:
  • python-daemonize

installation

• Archlinux: PKGBUILD in AUR
• Manual: run install.sh and uninstall.sh as root
• you also can just run it from git without installation: You can just run the following as root: cd src/fenrir-package/ sudo ./fenrir Settings "settings.conf" is located in the "config" directory or after installation in /etc/fenrir. Take care that the used drivers in the config matching your installed drivers. By default it uses:
• sound driver: genericDriver (via sox, could configured in settings.conf)
• speech driver: speechdDriver
• braille driver: brlttyDriver (WIP)
• input driver: evdevDriver