Re: [orca-list] Orca and user interfaces

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

Hi,
I would suggest that you do configuration through a config file which 
would allow for possible configuration on a command-line only box too.
You can obviously still make a nice gui for configuration from Orca/gnome.
Regards, Willem


On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Thomas Lloyd wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am quite new to developing accessible user interfaces for use with
> Orca. I am currently developing a linux wrapper for the Microsoft Speech
> Engine SAPI 5 which is almost ready for the alpha release.
>
> I am planning to initially integrate through speech dispatcher and run
> Orca as a test app to see if the systems performance is good enough. I
> want to create a SAPI configuration front end app and was wondering what
> is the best way for Orca. I have used tcl for the background scripting.
>
> I have come across Gnocl has anyone tested this with Orca and or
> developed accessible applications?
>
> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated and if there are any users
> that want to dust off their SAPI speech engines from the shelf and try
> them out under Linux i would really appreciate some testers at the end
> of Jan. I will post details of the project and install process when they
> are uploaded.  
>
> The system requires wine and an installation of a speech engine but i
> will be providing the standard Windows XP voices as an automatic
> installer. If you want to test your own i would really appreciate the
> results.
>
> I am particularly interested in users who are using non-english
> installations as this project benefits them the most by adding a greater
> choice of speech engines for Linux. 
>
> Tom
>
>
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