[orca-list] Chromevox and Orca, easier than I thought?

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

I'm considering playing with Chromevox, especially as I now have the 
sighted help needed to get it working. First, I'm wondering if anyone 
has gotten this working with Orca? I know that the accessibility support 
isn't there, but I'm wondering if there's some way to at least get the 
two to complement each other somehow.

Chromevox uses Emacspeak speech servers via HTTPSpeaker.py, which 
appears to be a simplistic protocol that only allows text to be spoken 
or speech to be stopped. This tickled something in my memory, and I 
remembered the HTTPServer module in Orca. In particular, a quick study 
of the Chromevox and Orca code seems to indicate that the two protocols 
are compatible enough that Chrome can use Orca for speech rather than 
requiring more processes be running. Since HTTPSpeaker doesn't seem to 
allow launching arbitrary speech servers, this seems essential for 
anyone wanting to use Espeak.

So, first, has anyone done this? Are these two HTTP speech interfaces 
indeed compatible?

Furthermore, how is Orca's HTTP server enabled? It doesn't seem to be by 
default. Is there any UI exposed for setting the port to what Chromevox 
might expect? I imagine it can be changed in both places, but I probably 
have better access to Orca's settings than to Chrome's, at least for now.

Thanks for any input, and I'll definitely report back with my successes 
or failures.