Re: [orca-list] orca interface or at-spi interface

["Bohdan R. Rau" <ethanak polip com>]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:39:21 +0200, MichaÅ Zegan wrote:

> In windows, (...)
> You can connect to the synthesizers like sapi and use that to 
> announce
> something, or you connect to the screen reader and do it.
> Can linux do that?
> I don't mean the synthesizer part, but the screenreader one.

In old good days Orca has HTTP interface. Now it's gone.
I think it's good idea to have possibility to push message directly to 
Orca - personally I like this idea, because I could have some extra 
functions built in my applications. Example: read word context in 
audiobook creator...
Of course I could do it talking directly to speech-dispatcher or even 
using built-in synthesizer. But it's not a good way. Built-in 
synthesizer will talk with voice used for creating book, which is not 
the same as used in screenreader and may be inaccessible (for example 
Ivona server may be down during edition). Speech-dispatcher would start 
unconfigured and say something strange for sighted user which absolutely 
does not need it...

For me there should be very simple interface based on unix socket even 
with only simple command like 'say string'. But it's my (application 
writer) point of view.

ethanak
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