Re: [orca-list] speak clipboard content

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

rj <rjonav xs4all nl> wrote:
> Is there a way to pipe text into orca from the commandline?
>
> There exists a commandline tool that produces the content of the
> clipboards.
> This way I would be able to select a text in a pdf an let it be spoken
> without first having to paste it in gedit.

xclip can write it to standard output. You could write a simple shell script
or shell alias to do this and write the result to a gnome-terminal or a
console session.

See the xclip(1) manual page for full details.