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Talking player on raspberry

Welcome all. I have vision problems, my hobby is programming.

Somehow in the recent past, I learned about a raspberry single-board computer, the description of me is impressive and I acquired it.

So, as the official distribution is raspbian, based on debian, I thought I would include accessibility features, the orca screen reader, and I will have a fully functional mini-computer.
In reality, everything turned out not so good. I tried different OSs, but the normal operation of the screen reader with support for the Russian language did not turn out to be.

There is a normal fenrir screen reader, but it is without the support of the Russian language.

Earlier, I wrote sketches for arduino with an audio interface, I decided to try to write something similar for raspberry, at the same time there would be an incentive to learn python, since I do not know it.

As a result, he wrote a script that plays local audio files, Internet radio stations, the synthesizer says the time and date.

The script has a talking menu, navigation on which is carried out using the arrow keys, up | down selects an item, right activates an item, left jumps back.
You can activate a menu item using the space bar or enter.

If the player is on | radio buttons up | switch tracks down, otherwise you can select from the list.

I also hung an action on the exc button to turn off the computer.

All actions are voiced in Russian by the RHVoice synthesizer.

The advantages of this solution is that a person with minimal programming knowledge can make a very convenient minimal player with simple controls.
All settings are written in the script and can be changed at your discretion.
Put the script in autorun, and it turns out to be a fully functional tifloplayer.
The plans include multilingualism, support for other synthesizers, connect online libraries, etc. on the little things.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, I will be grateful for the information for development in this direction.

The script called avonation, here is the link .

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