Screader - A screen reader using software or hardware speech synthesizer.
The background program screader reads the screen and puts the information
through to a software Text-To-Speech package (Like `festival') or
a hardware speech synthesizer (like Accent).
The following TTS-commands are available:
a - Toggles auto_speak on (default) or off. When toggled on screader will speak
out the character or the word being typed.
b - Put the internal pointer at the beginning of the current line
and speak it out if line_speak is toggled on.
c - Speak out the line containing the cursor.
d - Puts the internal pointer one line down and speaks that line out if
line_speak is toggled on.
e - Speak out character or word under the cursor.
f - Toggle for the internal pointer to follow the cursor or not.
g - Puts the internal pointer to the bottom of the screen and speaks that line
out if line_speak is toggled on.
h - Puts the internal pointer to the top of the screen and speaks that line out
if line_speak is toggled on.
i - Toggles line_speak on (default) or off. When toggled on screader will speak
out the line, which is pointed to by the internal pointer, every time
it has changed.
k - Toggles key-clicking on or off. When on screader will give a short
click when a key is pressed.
, - Puts the pointer left one word. If auto_speak is
toggled on screader speaks out that word.
l - Puts the internal pointer one character left. If auto_speak is on,
screader speaks out the character pointed to by the internal pointer.
m - Toggles the word mode on or off. When toggled on screader speaks
out words instead of characters.
n - Toggle for numbers. If toggled on (default) screader speaks
out the value of the digits pointed to by the internal pointer.
Otherwise screader speaks out digit by digit. When in word_mode
words will be spelled.
o - Silence please!
p - Speak out character or word pointed to by the pointer.
q - Toggles punctuation on or off.
. - Puts the pointer right one word. If auto_speak is toggled on
screader speaks out that word.
r - Puts the internal pointer one character right. If auto_speak is on,
screader speaks out the character pointed to by the internal pointer.
s - Screader speaks out the line pointed to by the internal pointer.
u - Puts the internal pointer one line up. If line_speak is on screader
speaks out that line.
w - Speaks out the whole screen.
x - Re-read the `tts' file. (if another TTS is desired.) Each time
this combination is pressed screader will select the next TTS-command
from this file. (if any, else the first one will be selected. and so on)
z - Put screader in direct mode. In this mode each command
can be given without the alt-key, so that
reviewing the screen is easier. When the `z'-key
is pressed, screader goes back to application mode,
so that you can work with your application again.
- - Toggles repeat_mode on or off. If toggled on, every sequence of
the same characters will be spoken as `character n times`. where n
stands for the number of that character in the sequence.
' - Toggles caps_mode on or off. If toggled on screader speaks the
word `cap' before each capitalized character.
= - Makes the internal pointer equal to the cursor.