[GTALUG] Kurzweil Reading Edge

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi,
While I deeply appreciate both of our input, a couple of factors that 
impact  my situation.
First, I referenced shellworld, a shell service to which I subscribe, 
because  I personally cannot run Linux.
There is no current Linux distribution with a screen reading program that 
can talk  to my reading edge, which serves as my speech synthesizer.
Second, because this is a service, I have no control  over what edition of 
YouTube dl is run by the administrator.  I can tell you shellworld  is not 
a graphical desktop, meaning Lynx, or at most links which can incorporate 
some java is used.
Again your expertise is, as always, appreciated...but unless you can match 
my environment some mileage factors vary  a great great deal.
That reminds me to start a thread asking why graphical Linux desktops 
cannot   speak to hardware serial ports.  I imagine other things are 
involved , but I do wonder.
Cheers,
Karen



On Mon, 31 May 2021, Znoteer wrote:

> On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 05:58:45PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
>> On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 05:30:35PM -0400, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
>>> no,
>>> Previously I could from shellworld use YouTube dL, I believe we have a
>>> second  option too, convert the video to either mp3 or m4a, and get the
>>> audio   that way.
>
> [snip]
>>
>> Well youtube-dl still works fine whenever I use it, so that should still
>
> [snip]
>>
>> youtube-dl -f 140  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0jECuwrn_U
>>
>
> And, if your instance of yt-dl is out-of-date and poutube serves you some errors,
>
> "youtube-dl -U"
>
> will update your instance for you.  Here's a brief description from
>
> https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#options
>
> --- begin documentation quote ---
> -U or --update
>
> Updates the youtube-dl program to its latest version.  Make sure that you have sufficient permissions (run with sudo if needed).
> --- end documentation quote ---
>
> Are you sure you don't want to hear the Reading Edge rap? :)
>
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