Howdy, One thing that has been asked for, and caused quite a bit of debate, is the ability to directly make orca talk. This would be useful in self-voicing applications. you could do something like orca-controler "Hello world" and Orca would say "hello world". A lot of people feel this is not the place of the screen reader. This may be true, but, there is still the problem of getting self-voicing apps to speak with the same settings used by the screen reader. Things like voice, varient, speech rate, etc. I got to thinking about it, and it does make sense to just send this stuff through speech-dispatcher. The problem is, usually speech-dispatcher settings do not match Orca settings. So, my idea is, to make speech-dispatcher have different speech profiles. I guess this would need to be filed as a feature request for both Orca and Speech-dispatcher. If Speech-dispatcher could support speech profiles, and if Orca could write speech settings to a speech-dispatcher profile, a lot of this could be solved. So then, someone calling speech-dispatcher to speak could do something like: spd-say --profile orca "hello world" and it would use Orca's speech settings to speak through speech-dispatcher. Of course, Orca would have probably 3 profiles, orca, orca-link, and orca-uppercase. Also, the ability to create profiles with spd-conf would be nice too. If, for example, you had one called audiogames you could select it in anything that supported the speech-dispatcher profile list. What do y'all think of this? It sounds awesome to me, and seems like it would solve a lot of problems and make speech-dispatcher completely awesome. But, I am the one who came up with the idea lol. Thanks Storm -- Powered by Arch Linux! I am registered Linux user number 508465: https://linuxcounter.net/user/508465.html My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.tk/ get my public PGP key: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 43DDC193 Twitter and Facebook are so ... yesteryear. Get your 2MB Social account TODAY! http://2mb.social/main/register How many Internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a lightbulb? http://goo.gl/eO4PJ "Fell in a river of illusion and apathy" Godsmack - Realign
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