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Port details

accessibility/yasr 0.6.9_6

General-purpose console screen reader

Port info

Maintainer
David.K.Gerry@GMail.com
Packages
latest: 0.6.9_6
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 0.6.9_6 · b2b19df09e
Quarterly
2026Q4: 0.6.9_6
WWW
https://yasr.sourceforge.net/
Links
cgit · VuXML

Install

Package
# pkg install yasr
installs 0.6.9_6 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 0.6.9_6
Port
# cd /usr/ports/accessibility/yasr && make install clean
# make -C /usr/ports/accessibility/yasr config  # change options first
Size
63 KiB download · 149 KiB installed
Depends on
devel/gettext-runtime 1.0_1
License
LGPL20
Options
2 of 2 on in the package: DOCS NLS
pkg-message
Shown after installing
Yasr requires a text-to-speech engine to work. FreeBSD offers two: Festival
and FLite (Festival Lite). Edit the system configuration file
/usr/local/share/yasr/yasr.conf
or user configuration file ~/.yasr.conf and set "synthesizer" and
"synthesizer port".

NOTE: To use FLite requires the Emacspeak speech server eflite to be
installed.

EXAMPLES:

Festival
    synthesizer=festival
    sythesizer port=|/usr/local/bin/festival
Festival running as a server
    synthesizer=festival
    synthesizer port=127.0.0.1:1314
FLite
    synthesizer=Emacspeak server
    synthesizer port=|/usr/local/bin/eflite

See man page for more information.

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 160.6.9_60.6.9_6–
FreeBSD 150.6.9_60.6.9_6–
FreeBSD 140.6.9_60.6.9_60.6.9_6

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 150.6.9_60.6.9_6–
FreeBSD 140.6.9_60.6.9_60.6.9_6

version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.

Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)

No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by pkg audit for the packaged version 0.6.9_6.

Fixed (0)

No VuXML entries for this package.

Problem reports (0) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

None.

Commits (29)

Muhammad Moinur Rahman (bofh) · 0.6.9_6
accessibility/yasr: Moved man to share/man

Approved by:    portmgr (blanket)
b2b19df09e
Rodrigo Osorio (rodrigo) · 0.6.9_5
*/*: Update WWW to use HTTPS for sourceforge.net projects

Homepage link is permanent redirected to its HTTPS counterpart
Issue reported by repology : https://repology.org/repository/freebsd/problems

Approved by:	portmgr (blanket)
PR:		274888
06df180a9e
Stefan Eßer (se) · 0.6.9_5
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles

Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.

This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.

Approved by:		portmgr (tcberner)
fb16dfecae
Stefan Eßer (se) · 0.6.9_5
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles

It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.

Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.

There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.

This commit implements such a proposal and moves one of the WWW: entries
of each pkg-descr file into the respective port's Makefile. A heuristic
attempts to identify the most relevant URL in case there is more than
one WWW: entry in some pkg-descr file. URLs that are not moved into the
Makefile are prefixed with "See also:" instead of "WWW:" in the pkg-descr
files in order to preserve them.

There are 1256 ports that had no WWW: entries in pkg-descr files. These
ports will not be touched in this commit.

The portlint port has been adjusted to expect a WWW entry in each port
Makefile, and to flag any remaining "WWW:" lines in pkg-descr files as
deprecated.

Approved by:		portmgr (tcberner)
b7f05445c0
Tobias C. Berner (tcberner) · 0.6.9_5
accessibility: remove 'Created by' lines

A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:

  *  David K. Gerry
  *  Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Koop Mast <kwm@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Michael Johnson <ahze@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj@anongoth.pl>

With hat:	portmgr
4bc2b38872
Mathieu Arnold (mat) · 0.6.9_5
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.
305f148f48
Steve Wills (swills) · 0.6.9_5
accessibility/yasr: use patch instead of sed to replace static content

PR:		242486
Approved by:	maintainer timeout (david.k.gerry@gmail.com, >3 weeks)
ec2b679dae
Mathieu Arnold (mat) · 0.6.9_5
Convert to UCL & cleanup pkg-message (categories a-c)
a6c40a689b
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.6.9_5
Remove libintl.so.9 compatibility link that was added in r374303 to prevent massive PORTREVISION bumps.  Bump dependent ports that have not been bumped since.
f83c7639aa
Mathieu Arnold (mat) · 0.6.9_4
Cleanup patches, a* categories.

Rename them to follow the make makepatch naming, and regenerate them.

With hat:	portmgr
Sponsored by:	Absolight
9fa9eb9ac7
Dmitry Marakasov (amdmi3) · 0.6.9_4
- Add LICENSE_FILE - Drop unneeded PLIST_DIRS - Switch to options helpers

Approved by:	portmgr blanket
f11ba7b70d
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 0.6.9_4
Remove conditions around the EXTRA_PATCHES: always apply the patch
48e3efc22c
Antoine Brodin (antoine) · 0.6.9_4
Finish stage support
aa3fe5ab73
John Marino (marino) · 0.6.9_3
accessibility/yasr: Unbreak everywhere after stage attempt

After staging, this port failed because PLIST_SUB for NLS was
no longer defined.  The option has to be explicitly listed
for OPTIONS_SUB to work.  Define DOCS while here and bump because
it has been building incorrectly.
3c5563f807
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 0.6.9_2
support stage
9cb56c2689
Eitan Adler (eadler) · 0.6.9_2
Fix build error on 9.x+

Approved by:	 David K. Gerry <david.k.gerry@gmail.com> (maintainer)
e05c3d5287
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 0.6.9_2
Add no stage all over the place in accessibility in preparation for the staging area support
a62b5a9a5a
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 0.6.9_2
Finish converting accessibility from USE_GMAKE to USES=gmake While here: - trim some headers - convert from USE_GNOME=pkgconfig to USES=pkgconfig
035f175141
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 0.6.9_2
Convert a bunch of ports from WITHOUT_NLS -> ${PORT_OPTIONS:MNLS}

While here:
- trim headers
- convert to new options framework
9ff06b3cbf
Alex Kozlov (ak) · 0.6.9_2
- Convert USE_GETTEXT to USES (part 3)

Approved by:	portmgr (bapt)
e159824929
Alexey Dokuchaev (danfe) · 0.6.9_2
For some ports in accessibility category, trim the header and drop leading indefinite article from COMMENT line; also fix couple of noticed styles bugs while here.
3606ca16c8
Eitan Adler (eadler) · 0.6.9_2
- remove maintainer tags from pkg-descr

Approved by:	portmgr
Approved by:	bapt (mentor)
7e3b32fff8
Martin Wilke (miwi) · 0.6.9_2
- Get Rid MD5 support

With hat:	portmgr (myself)
65e190c0f0
Ade Lovett (ade) · 0.6.9_2
Bounce PORTREVISION for gettext-related ports.  Have fun, ya'll.
8d837132c7
Martin Wilke (miwi) · 0.6.9_1
- Mark BROKEN on HEAD: fails to build with new utmpx

Reported by:	pointyhat
ddb8804c0f
Rong-En Fan (rafan) · 0.6.9_1
Update CONFIGURE_ARGS for how we pass CONFIGURE_TARGET to configure script. Specifically, newer autoconf (> 2.13) has different semantic of the configure target. In short, one should use --build=CONFIGURE_TARGET instead of CONFIGURE_TARGET directly. Otherwise, you will get a warning and the old semantic may be removed in later autoconf releases.

To workaround this issue, many ports hack the CONFIGURE_TARGET variable
so that it contains the ``--build='' prefix.

To solve this issue, under the fact that some ports still have
configure script generated by the old autoconf, we use runtime detection
in the do-configure target so that the proper argument can be used.

Changes to Mk/*:
 - Add runtime detection magic in bsd.port.mk
 - Remove CONFIGURE_TARGET hack in various bsd.*.mk
 - USE_GNOME=gnometarget is now an no-op

Changes to individual ports, other than removing the CONFIGURE_TARGET hack:

= pkg-plist changed (due to the ugly CONFIGURE_TARGET prefix in * executables)
  - comms/gnuradio
  - science/abinit
  - science/elmer-fem
  - science/elmer-matc
  - science/elmer-meshgen2d
  - science/elmerfront
  - science/elmerpost

= use x86_64 as ARCH
  - devel/g-wrap

= other changes
  - print/magicfilter
    GNU_CONFIGURE -> HAS_CONFIGURE since it's not generated by autoconf

Total # of ports modified:  1,027
Total # of ports affected: ~7,000 (set GNU_CONFIGURE to yes)

PR:		126524 (obsoletes 52917)
Submitted by:	rafan
Tested on:	two pointyhat 7-amd64 exp runs (by pav)
Approved by:	portmgr (pav)
741aa71483
Edwin Groothuis (edwin) · 0.6.9_1
Bump portrevision due to upgrade of devel/gettext.

The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency
according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT
in Makefile (29 of them).

PR:		ports/124340
Submitted by:	edwin@
Approved by:	portmgr (pav)
e4e1ff21dc
Philippe Audeoud (jadawin) · 0.6.9
- Update to 0.6.9

PR:	ports/121744
Submitted by:	"David K. Gerry" <gerrydk@comcast.net>
Approved by:	tabthorpe (mentor)
90e31bab44
Alejandro Pulver (alepulver) · 0.6.7
YASR ("Yet Another Screen Reader") is an attempt at a lightweight, portable screen reader. It works by opening a shell in a pty and intercepting all user input/output, maintaining a window of what should be on the screen by looking at the codes and text sent to the screen. It thus uses no Linuxisms such as /dev/vcsa0 and does not necessarily need to be setuid root (the only requirement being that 

WWW: http://yasr.sourceforge.net/

Ported by David K. Gerry <David.K.Gerry@GMail.com>

PR:		ports/119789
Submitted by:	David K. Gerry
43804a60ba