Re: [orca-list] unable to stop speech with Orca 2.22.

["Paul Hunt" <huntp ukonline co uk>]

Hi,

While I think that the underlying problem of Orca / the speech server 
getting overwhelmed by too much text appearing in the terminal window (as 
others have pointed out, even alt + tabbing away from the window doesn't 
stop the chatter) should be investigated, I think the idea of having a mode 
where Orca doesn't speak except for flat review would be really handy.

Perhaps Orca key + S could toggle between full speach, flat-review only and 
no speech?

Paul


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve holmesgrown com>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] unable to stop speech with Orca 2.22.


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> I like this idea best.  the other thing I would like in this area
> would be to have a state where you could suspend speech or turn it off
> but still have access to the screen with the flat review keys.  this
> way, text could be streaming by and you could take a "snap shot" by
> reading a line now and then to see what is then showing.  You could
> monitor a compile this way for example.
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:25:44AM -0700, Peter Korn wrote:
> > Hey Willie,
> >
> > If I remember correctly, we dealt with this situation in outSPOKEN for
> > Windows with an overridden version of "shutup" that recognized the
> > situation of streaming output into a terminal window, and suppressed all
> > further speech output only from that window.  The moment the user typed
> > something else, this "shutup" would be lifted until the next time the 
> > user
> > hit the "shutup" key.  A useful modification to this would be to 
> > recognize
> > the terminal prompt, and say something like "done" when that appears 
> > alone
> > on the last line of output (and since outSPOKEN didn't have scripting
> > support, we weren't in a good position to attempt that modification).
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter Korn
> > Accessibility Architect,
> > Sun Microsystems, Inc.