NixOS-speak

Aims

NixOS as of now is not accessible to blind people, this projects aim is to mend this issue.

Getting Started

Getting the installation image

As of now an existing installation of Nix is needed (see Installing a Binary Distribution).
If there are enough people interested I may end up providing pre-built images.

After installing nix just clone this repo and run

nix-build release.nix -A image.<target>

The currently available targets are:

• minimal
• mate

Integrate this module into your existing NixOS configuration

Installing the speak submodule is as simple as adding:

{ config, ... }:

{
  imports = [
    (fetchTarball git.ophanim.de/derped/NixOS-Speak/archive/master.tar.gz)
  ];

  config.speak = {
    enable = true;
    config.speakup = {
      synth = "soft";
      key_echo = "0";
      punc_level = "0";
      reading_punc = "0";
      soft = {
        rate = "7";
        vol = "0";
      };
    };
  };
}

to your configuration.

Status/Progress

Current Feature Progress (more will be added later):

• TTY
  • ✓ espeak
  • ✓ espeakup
• Desktop
  • ❌ orca
  • ❌ speechd