Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: > * Speech Dispacher support for Orca -- I know there have been issues > raised about this before. Some missing features are mentioned here: > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/SpeechDispatcher
Hello, the major issue now is the missing callback support. This results in missing cursor/speech synchronization. As far as I know, the end user will notice that in OpenOffice when reading the whole document -- when he interrupts the speech, the cursor will not be positioned to the place where the speech was interrupted. Maybe there are some other situation, may someone comment on that? Adding this support into the Speech Dispatcher Orca backend should not be technically difficult (my rough estimation is 40 manhours, being tempted to say much less). Well, once we get the functionality to the Orca backend, we will also need to support it in the Speech-Dispatcher eSpeak driver. The author of eSpeak added an API for that recently. Maybe Hynek or Jonathan will tell us more about the progress here. > I do wonder how the user community would react to a sudden switch of > default synth though. Thoughts? Please also note, that Dpeech Dispatcher allows you to switch synthesizers automatically based on the current language, so you should be able to use e.g. Festival for English and eSpeak for other languages. This, however, must be supported by the client (i.e. Orca) by providing relevant language information. Hope this information helps. Tomas. _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
