Re: premature announcement: speech bridge

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 11:35:32PM AEST, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> as I mentioned earlier, I was working on a tool to bridge speech recognition
> from Windows VM to drive a Linux environment. I now have something good
> enough for plaintext dictation.  You can find it on git-hub
> https://github.com/alsoeric/speechbridge

Nice work. I don't use dictation, but anything that helps in this area is awesome to see.

> what I need to know is how to detect events such as focus changes, and
> currently active window and application.  later on, it would be useful to
> know how to operate on text areas (searching, selecting region etc.).

At-spi is likely your best bet here. You can either use libatspi or talk directly via dbus to the at-spi 
registry daemon. Orca is a good example of a good at-spi client. The good news is that Qt supports at-spi 
rather well these days, so Qt applications will likely be usable for dictation users as well.

Luke