speechd-up

[William Hubbs]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:37:56PM +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 08:54:36PM EST, Hynek Hanke wrote:
> > It is now necessary to investigate what needs to
> > be done, setup a roadmap and implement the
> > necessary changes. If there is power and will
> > to do that, we will be happy to host such a project
> > on Free(b)Soft.
> 
> I think the closest we are to a userspace console screen reader is sbl. It 
> intercepts keypresses from the kernel using UEvents, reads the same device 
> nodes that brltty uses for reading the current console, allows different 
> configurations to be loaded for the currently used application in the current 
> console etc. I think we should extend sbl, since we already have a code base 
> that does some of what we need already. BrlTTY could also be extended, but 
> its architecture may need to be altered to work as a user session service. I 
> haven't really thought this throgh very much however, so I could be wrong.
> 
> In any case, there is code available already that can be extended, so I don't 
> think we need to start from scratch.

There is one serious issue, imho, with sbl which will have to be fixed
somehow.  Basically, it does not autoread anything.  So, if you do
something like 
less foo.txt

you are forced to use review mode to read the file instead of just
listening to it spoken like you would with any other screen reader I
have worked with.

William

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