Re: [orca-list] Idea for Orca speech settings and speech-dispatcher

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How about Orca telling speech dispatcher when it makes changes, seems
much easier to me doing it that way.  Still some work, nowhere near as
much.

Luke Yelavich <luke yelavich canonical com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:25:15AM AEST, Storm Dragon wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > One thing that has been asked for, and caused quite a bit of debate, is
> > the ability to directly make orca talk. This would be useful in self-voicing
> > applications. you could do something like orca-controler "Hello world" and
> > Orca would say "hello world". A lot of people feel this is not the place
> > of the screen reader. This may be true, but, there is still the problem
> > of getting self-voicing apps to speak with the same settings used by the
> > screen reader. Things like voice, varient, speech rate, etc.
> > I got to thinking about it, and it does make sense to just send this stuff
> > through speech-dispatcher. The problem is, usually speech-dispatcher settings
> > do not match Orca settings. So, my idea is, to make speech-dispatcher
> > have different speech profiles. I guess this would need to be filed as a
> > feature request for both Orca and Speech-dispatcher. If Speech-dispatcher
> > could support speech profiles, and if Orca could write speech settings
> > to a speech-dispatcher profile, a lot of this could be solved. So then,
> > someone calling speech-dispatcher to speak could do something like:
> > spd-say --profile orca "hello world"
>
> I think this is a great idea. It has been raised in the past, and I have
> given it some thought, although not in great detail. It would require
> some work, particularly given that the client borrowing its settings
> from Orca for example, would have to monitor any settings changes made by
> Orca. This monitoring would be server side, so clients wouldn't have to
> do any extra work.
>
>
> Luke
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