[BRLTTY] Improving the speech support of brltty

[Tom Fowle]

I'd think that some means of linking Brltty and Speakup so that the braille
display could easilly be brought to the current speakup location, and/or to
the application cursor, and viceversa would do the job.
since speakup can handle most needed speech functions, if the two could
cooperate just a bit more the job might be done.
One of speakup's few big lacks is that you can't automatically bring the
application cursor to the speakup cursor as you can with brltty.

Why re-invent the wheel when all you need are a couple of gears?

It's probably much harder than it seems, making two seperate programs work
together usually is <GRIN>

tom Fowle

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:25:03AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Sebastian Humenda on 2012/04/25 at 16:40 +0200]
> 
> >But if you navigate with the speech the display doesn't follow. You have to
> >bring the braille display to the position where the speech is and this isn't
> >efficient.
> 
> Adding speech functions to brltty would be fairly easy. Since I myself am not a 
> speech user, I need advice from those who do use it in roder to understand how 
> best to do it.
> 
> Right now, we effectively have what we could loosely consider two cursors. One 
> is the pointer on the screen, and the other is the location of the braille 
> display on the screen. These are often the same, but needn't be. Do we need a 
> third cursor which would be the current speech location?
> 
> The issue of word-by-word speech navigation was mentioned. I suppose we also 
> might need character-by-character, speaking the current character phonetically, 
> and a few other such things. How would we best associate this with the current 
> location of the braille display, given that the braille display, unless it's 
> very small, contains a fairly large chunk of the current line?
> 
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