Is it possible to learn pronunciation without using macrons and accents? I ask this because I am totally blind and the only way for me to know that a macron or an accute accent is there is to read letter by letter with the arrow keys, since my screen reader doesn't change pronunciation or add stress when it encounters one. Furthermore, instead of saying the letter with the accent on one stroke (a macron, for example) it must be done in two strokes (a space macron). It doesn't recognise the diaeresis at all. This can be quite confusing. Braille has no marks of any kind, so I can't use that instead of speech, unless I learn without any of these.

Would it be possible for me to skip the marks, learn the rules, and study Latin words used in English, in order to practice them? I am using Traditional English Pronunciation. I could, of course, just learn the grammar and focus on reading, construing, translating, and versification, but much of the learning method that I use depends on recitation, from simple declensions and conjugations, to lines, to speeches, to declamations. I would hate to miss all of that, even though I do feel much more confident in writing.

If worse comes to worst, I will contact the developers of eSpeak (the speech synthesizer that I use) and see if they can modify the English pronunciation file and create a Latin-English one, but that might take time, depending on their availability. There is a Classical Latin option, but that reads everything in English terribly, which is why I don't use it.