Screader - (C)1997-1999 J. Lemmens
Screen reader using a software Text-To-Speech package
or a hardware speech synthesizer.

This is a screen reader using a software Text-To-Speech package or a
hardware speech synthesizer. It reads the screen information from the
device /dev/vcsa0 and puts it through to a TTS. The file /opt/etc/screader/tts
contains the name(s) of the TTS to be used by screader.
On my homepage www.inter.nl.net/users/jlemmens/ are some software speech
synthesizers available.

Some synthesizers are not able to pronounce punctuation marks in a
right way, so screader offers you a punctuation script per synthesizer.
In the file /opt/etc/screader/tts you specify one or more synthesizers.
Each synthesizer has its own punctuation script in the directory 
/opt/etc/screader. (punctuation.1.sh belongs to the first synthesizer 
mentioned in the tts file. punctuation.2.sh belongs to the second one, 
etc..)

This program is a modification of the `screen' package.
In future I hope not to need `screen' for screader. At that time it
will be possible to read the screen from every virtual console. Now
screader will only work on the current virtual console. If you want to
use screader on another virtual console you have to run screader again
on that console.
A typically place to start screader from is your .login script.

Jos Lemmens <jlemmens@inter.nl.net>
