Re: [orca-list] Quick change of the active language

[Sebastian Humenda <shumenda gmx de>]

Hello,

Luciano de Souza <luchyanus gmail com> wrote on Fr, Nov 05, 2010 at 07:40:10 -0200:
> Sometimes, it's necessary to change the active language to read a
> short text and, few moments after, return to the previous language.
[...]
The feature you are suggesting will be implemented in future versions
of orca. For now a script might help. I tried something, but it
doesn't work. I paste it below. If someone on this list has the
knowledge to fix that, it would be great.

Thanks, Greetings
Sebastian
===
import orca.acss
import orca.settings
import orca.keybindings
import orca.input_event

myKeyBindings = orca.keybindings.KeyBindings()
LANG_SWITCHED=False
SPEECH_ORIGINAL_SETTINGS = None

def toggle_language():
    if not LANG_SWITCHED:
        SPEECH_ORIGINAL_SETTINGS = orca.settings.voices
        LANG_SWITCHED = True
        orca.settings.voices = {
            'default' : orca.acss.ACSS({'average-pitch': 4.7000000000000002,
            'rate': 80.0, 'family': {'gender': None, 'locale': 'en', 'name': 'english'}})}
    else:
        orca.settings.voices = SPEECH_ORIGINAL_SETTINGS
        LANG_SWITCHED = False

lang_switch_handler = \
    orca.input_event.InputEventHandler(toggle_language, \
                        'Toggle speech between English and German')

# Bind keys
myKeyBindings.add(orca.keybindings.KeyBinding(
    "r",
    1 << orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA,
    1 << orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA,
        lang_switch_handler))

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