Peter Korn wrote: > Michael Meeks wrote: > > Sam Halliday wrote: > > > what i was looking for was a program (probably best implemented as an > > > applet) which when clicked, would read the currently selected text and > > > [more complicated] to have maybe some form of grammatical (not just > > > spelling) checker. options to change speech parameters would also be > > > nice. > > Right; that should be pretty easy. > > > does such a program already exist? grammatical checker aside, this > > > should really be quite a trivial program to code up, and i may attempt > > > it myself; although with many other things on and learning gnome2 > > > programming from scratch, this may take me a loooong time. > > Well - I guess what you need to do is grab at-spi/test/simple-at, > > grunge that into the panel applet example, add > > gnome-speech/test/test-foo and you're pretty much there ;-) > > Unfortunately, the massive range of impairments means that it's unlikely > > for us to be able to provide a perfect solution for everyone out of the > > box [ I think ]. > Michael is right on the money here. The folks who designed and built the > GNOME Accessibility framework focused on the hardest problems, on the > assumption that the easier ones would be pretty solvable once we'd done the > hardest ones (namely blind/deaf, the most severe physical disabilities, and > the stuff needed for full voice control). The architecture provides all of > the information you need to build the tool you describe, and the source code > in simple-at and the examples in gnome-speech should provide the stuff you > need. You may also find things of interest in the gnopernicus source code, > though that is a much larger body of code to work through to find the > specific gems you might be looking for. > I know of no one else working on quite the thing you describe, so I would > encourage you to consider starting a new project around it! thanks for the pointers to the source files; they really help! i will try my best to code this up when (if) i get any free time. im currently doing a PhD and hacking is not a priority anymore :-/ thanks again! Sam
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