After many months, in fact, just over a year of hard work, we are proud to announce the initial, beta release of Odilia: a new, fast, lightweight screenreader for Linux, written in rust for maximum speed and efficiency. Thanks to all the others who have been instrumental in making Odilia possible: @albertotirla (BGTLover) @mcb2003 (Fake VIP) @luukvanderduim (Luuk Van Der Duim) @samtay (Sam Tay) Federico Mena and Emmanuel Bassi at GNOME for answering my questions.| odilia.app
As of afew days ago, a minimal binding to speech-dispatcher (the TTS system for Linux) was created, which wraps the C functions provided by Nolan’s speech-dispatcher-sys crate in a safe Rust API.| odilia.app
As we announced recently, we decided that we’d learned enough from the Odilia prototype to actually implement the real thing. The prototype code, while functional, prioritised experimentation over quality, and thus we’ll be throwing almost all of it out completely, but the code is far less important than the experience we gained from writing it.| odilia.app