Linux Accessibility For The Visually Impaired – For The Record Posted on September 16, 2018
Matt Hartley
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(Last Updated On: September 16, 2018)
Linux Accessibility For The Visually Impaired. I received a comment from Milton asking me about text to speech options in Linux. He also wanted to know what I recommended for audio dictation under Linux. The first option is indeed, using FoSS awesomeness. However the later relies on Google’s Web Speech API. Also, here is that article on controlling your mouse cursor with your webcam and no hands.
sudo apt install festlex-cmu festival xselcd /usr/share/festival/voices/english/sudo wget -c http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cmu_arctic/packed/cmu_us_clb_arctic-0.95-release.tar.bz2sudo tar jxf cmu_us_clb_arctic-0.95-release.tar.bz2sudo ln -s cmu_us_clb_arctic cmu_us_clb_arctic_clunitssudo cp /etc/festival.scm /etc/festival.scm.backupsudo echo “(set! voice_default ‘voice_cmu_us_clb_arctic_clunits)” >> /etc/festival.scmecho “This is a test.” | festival –tts
To create the script that you will map in your keyboard settings (see video):
#/bin/bash
xsel | festival –tts –pipe
and OpenLogic.com/wazi, Matt also once served as a co-host for a popular Linux-centric podcast.
Matt has written about various software titles, such as Moodle, Joomla, WordPress, openCRX, Alfresco, Liferay and more. He also has additional Linux experience working with Debian based distributions, openSUSE, CentOS, and Arch Linux.