Odilia Screen Reader

Welcome to Odilia

Odilia is a screen reader for the Linux desktop. It's written in Rust, for maximum performance and stability.

Status: Beta

This is absolutely not production ready in any way!
Everything is in a fairly early stage and we're changing things on a daily basis. However, Odilia is somewhat useable, and will not crash randomly or cause weird behaviour in other applications.
Try it out! See if it works for you!

Prerequisites

The MSRV for Odilia is 1.81.0. At this time, Odilia also requires nightly. This restriction will be lifted in the future.

You will need to have speech-dispatcher installed and running before you can start Odilia. To test that speech dispatcher is indeed working properly, try running this command:

spd-say "hello, world!"

if you heard a voice saying "hello, world!", you can proceed to installing. Otherwise, check if sound is working on the computer in general.

Build and install

To build odilia, copy paste the following on your command line . The following snippet will clone, build and install it for you, all at once without user interaction. The final binaries will be located in ~/.cargo/bin

git clone https://github.com/odilia-app/odilia  && \
cd odilia && \
cargo install --path odilia

Running

Simply type odilia in your terminal!

Community

You can find us in the following places:

• Discord
• IRC: irc.libera.chat
  • #odilia-dev (development)
  • #odilia-general (general)
  • #odilia-offtopic (off-topic)
• Matrix: stealthy.club
  • #odilia-dev (development)
  • #odilia-general (general)
  • #odilia-offtopic (off-topic)

Contributing

We are excited to accept new contributions to this project; in fact, we already have! Sometimes there may be missing documentation or lack of examples. Please, reach out to us, make an issue, or a pull request and we will continue to improve Odilia with your help. By the way, a huge thank you to all who have contributed so far, and who will continue to do so in the future!

See CONTRIBUTING.md for more detail on how to contribute.

License

The Odilia screen reader is licensed under the GPL v3.