Re: [orca-list] Orca with the Skype Public API

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Surely there are more pressing priorities than enabling this proprietary
Vo/IP application for Linux? After all, it isn't as if Vo/IP were unable
on Linux. We have the ekiga to run with Orca, linphone to run
terminal/console mode, and even the fully accessible asterisk to provide
all the Vo/IP functionality a pretty large company might need for all
its telephones. Why do we need Skype?

Janina

John Greer writes:
> Hello, I was wondering if there were any plans to get Orca to work with
> Skype for Linux.  I do know this has been done many times over on the
> Windows platform by tapping into the Skype API and using text to speech
> to read its messaging system.  After searching though, I have yet to
> find anything similar for Linux.  I do realize that Linux is a QT4 app,
> but by using its API you can at least gain access to user sign in
> notifications, instant messaging and I believe even the contact list.
> There is a program for Windows called Skread that did just this sort of
> thing using Auto it.  Another screen reader for Windows called System
> Access also taps into Skype's public API for the same purposes.  It is
> just a shame I haven't seen anything like this for Linux.
>
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