Skip to main content
# Fenrir
A TTY screenreader for Linux.
In theory it's not just limited to Linux. but i currently only provide drivers for that since I do not have another system here. If you want to help, or write drivers to make it work on other systems, just let me know.
This software is licensed under the LGPL v3 .

# Requirements (core)
- Linux (currently only screen and input drivers available)
- python3 >= 3.3
- python-configargparse
- screen, input, speech, sound or braille drivers see "Features, Drivers, Extras".

# Features, Drivers, Extras, Dependencies
# Input Drivers:
1. "evdevDriver" input driver for linux evdev
- python-evdev >=0.6.3
- python-pyudev
- This is commonly referred to as python3-evdev by your distribution
- loaded uinput kernel module
- ReadWrite permission
- /dev/input
- /dev/uinput

# Screen Drivers:
1. "vcsaDriver" screen driver for linux VCSA devices
- python-dbus
- Read permission to the following files and services:
- /sys/devices/virtual/tty/tty0/active
- /dev/tty[1-64]
- /dev/vcsa[1-64]
- read logind DBUS

# Speech Drivers:
1. "EspeakDriver" speech driver for Espeak:
- python-espeak
- "speechdDriver" speech driver for Speech-dispatcher:
- Speech-dispatcher
- python-speechd
2. "dummyDriver" speech driver for debugging

# Braille Drivers:
1. "BrlttyDriver" braille driver (WIP):
- brltty (configured and running)
- python-brlapi
2. "dummyDriver" Braille driver for debugging

# Sound Drivers:
1. "genericDriver" sound driver for sound as subprocess:
- Sox
2. "gstreamerDriver" sound driver for gstreamer
- gstreamer >=1.0
- GLib
3. "dummyDriver" sound driver for debugging

# Extras:
1. spellchecker
- python-pyenchant
- aspell-YourLanguageCode (example aspell-en for us English)
2. Unix daemon (also needed for Systemd):
- python-daemonize
3. Modify system volume:
- pyalsaaudio (needs libasound2's headers).

# installation
- Archlinux: PKGBUILD in AUR
- Manual: run install.sh and uninstall.sh as root
- you also can just run it from Git without installing:
You can just run the following as root:
if you are in Fenrir Git rootfolder:
cd src/fenrir/
sudo ./fenrir
Settings "settings.conf" is located in the "config" directory or after installation in /etc/fenrir/settings.
Take care to use drivers from the config matching your installed drivers.
By default it uses:
- sound driver: genericDriver (via sox, could configured in settings.conf)
- speech driver: speechdDriver
- braille driver: brlttyDriver (WIP)
- input driver: evdevDriver

# Documentation
You can see all information on the Wiki:
https://wiki.linux-a11y.org/doku.php?id=fenrir_user_manual&s[]=fenrir

Metadata

Release files for fenrir-screenreader 1.5.post10

For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.

Source distribution (sdist)

Source distribution for fenrir-screenreader 1.5.post10
File Size Uploaded
fenrir-screenreader-1.5.post10.tar.gz 1.4 MB Details

Release files / fenrir-screenreader-1.5.post10.tar.gz

Download URL fenrir-screenreader-1.5.post10.tar.gz
Size 1.4 MB
Tags Source
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
97222fe198eb74bdee588f03b1a5840ff548c60dd707b99424e27594cd4be71b
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
27676c6e3dbfb3a4b60e3cb90cdf1fb46205fb88d725758b36f3b8aa2075df02
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
No
Anthropic, PBC Visionary sponsor Bloomberg Visionary sponsor Hudson River Trading Visionary sponsor Meta Visionary sponsor NVIDIA Visionary sponsor Microsoft Sustainability sponsor Depot Continuous Integration AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page