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

[chrys87 web de]

Howdy Storm,

 

unification is always a good idea. I see a problem here. Self voicing applications generate the speech by its own. so the app maybe has to be changed if it talks directly with the TTS (maybe espeak). I really often see this.

if the programms must be changed I think it also could changed to fire ATK notifications so that just orca generate this speech insteed of the app it self. The point on self voice apps where we have the "content to speak" its just too late because the speech is already synthesed and also could not changed anymore into a way that for example an other TTS maybe ibmtts could syntese it.

 

so there are 3 ways (IMO):

1. change the self voice app to synthese with speech-dispatcher. in this case your idea could work. but i know "some" apps there talking to espeak directly.

2. change the self voice app to fire ATK events so that orca could generate the speech for you.

3. you could use the "speak" function of orca directly so the settings should loaded and orca generate the speak. maybe we could do a little CLI wrapper for doing this. but also here.. the app has to be changed

 

cheers chrys

 

Gesendet: Freitag, 11. September 2015 um 03:25 Uhr
Von: "Storm Dragon" <stormdragon2976 gmail com>
An: Orca-list <orca-list gnome org>
Betreff: [orca-list] Idea for Orca speech settings and speech-dispatcher

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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