I use Linux Mint 21.1. I make considerable typing errors when I write but I don’t see them, so it would be helpful if the machine could read out loud my writings back to me. How can I get this to happen?

I would really prefer to not have to go through an extensive set of disability accommodation steps every single time nor hear the computer tell me everything that is happening on the screen, but I will do it if necessary. I’m hoping there’s an app or a LibreOffice button I can push to read only my selected text.

Here’s an example of the accessibility screen reader not being helpful for me: https://imgur.com/7QvU9y4

Edit:

So at the advice of @[email protected], I searched for apps using “text-to-speech” and found an app in the software manager called VoiceGen that seems helpful!

  • BOMBSOPEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    Appreciate the suggestion, but I don’t want to install a separate operating system and restart the machine every time I want to proof read anything. I’m confident someone in the Linux world has already addressed this. At worst, I could just go to translate.google.com, copy & paste, and have the translator read the stuff back to me. I’m happy you have found what works for you though!

    • @joneskindEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      You could use macOS as your main OS. It’s UNIX. You’ll get anything you could find on Linux.

      I found a few Linux tools looking for “Text To Speech” in DuckDuckGo. Didn’t you find anything useful ?

      • BOMBSOPEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Text To Speech

        This!! This is the term I couldn’t come up with. I was searching for “screen reader” and not get anywhere. Thank you!