I too have worked with a blind sysadmin, a fine fellow named Henning with whom Martin Grüner is acquainted. A very competent fellow who also uses a Braille reader.
But we're talking in circles by now. Xiphos provides Read Aloud because there wasn't system-level support for it when it was implemented, and it has proven disturbingly popular. (For something that started out somewhat as a joke, and as a proof-of-concept for myself when I was getting my feet wet in the code, it's really quite odd.) If the user has system-level TTS support, then he can ignore Xiphos' internal support and use that; if that's key sequences to emulate mouse sweeps and clicks, fine, Xiphos doesn't have to care. As it is, Xiphos provides ongoing verse reading if Read Aloud is simply turned on, and the user can sweep-and-select a region for reading on demand. I don't see that anything more than this is in order. Xiphos doesn't provide voice selection, or any other aspect of Festival configuration, because that was considered underneath the level at which the user interacts with Xiphos. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
