Re: [orca-list] Idea for Orca speech settings and speech-dispatcher

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

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hi
I'll second this. This would solve my issues neatly with apps using
speech-dispatcher not using my native orca settings. Plus, it would
also allow people who for whatever reason don't use espeak to use
eloquence or whatever voice they want in other applications. It would
solve both the orca not being able to speak through apps problem and
the problem  of not having a standardized speech API, which
speech-dispatcher is supposed to be. I've seen requests for a sapi5
equivalent for linux, but when I explain that's what speech-dispatcher
is supposed to be I often get that programs aren't speaking with their
own settings. This would be awesome
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 09/10/2015 08:25 PM, Storm Dragon wrote:
> 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
>
>
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