insomnimus / nvda-speak

A command line tool to speak text using the NVDA screen-reader.

nvda-speak

This tool uses the NVDA screen reader to speak text.

Note: The library used to interface with NVDA is provided from here. For convenience the latest master release as of 2023-01-20 is duplicated in this repository, under the "ffi" folder.

Usage

Pipe text to it or pass it as an argument.

echo "Hello, world!" | nvda-speak
nvda-speak "Hello, world!"

Installation

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/insomnimus/nvda-speak
2. Change to the directory: cd nvda-speak
3. Run cargo: cargo build --release
4. move target/release/nvda-speak.exe and the dll corresponding to your architecture in ffi/ into somewhere in $PATH.
   • 64 bit: ffi/x64/nvdaControllerClient64.dll
   • 32 bit: ffi/x86/nvdaControllerClient32.dll
   • arm64: ffi/arm64/nvdaControllerClient32.dll (yes, it's called nvdaControllerClient32.dll on arm64 too)