[BRLTTY] 6.5 within a couple of weeks.

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Christian Schoepplein on 2022/05/09 at 10:39 +0200]

>But lets take again the example when you type in a shell "ssl", press enter, 
>type "ssh" and then go up one line. In this case brltty only speaks "l". 
>This isn't the right behaviour IMHO because not the "l" is focused and its 
>not the character where the cursor is positioned. The cursor is located 
>behind the "l" so IMHO speaking "blank", or whatever is spoken for a empty 
>sign, should be spoken.

But wouldn't that be even more useless when using speech only? I'd think that knowing what has changed, rather than what hasn't changed, is more helpful.

>These things are all not a big problem when you are working with a braille 
>display and speech is enabled in addition. But when working with speech only 
>and when you have no braille display there are some situations where it is 
>not always clear where the focus is and whats the content of the screen if 
>only a part or the changing part of a line is spoken.

Yes, I understand. Since I myself am not a speech-only user, these things aren't as intuitive to me.

>So maybe the basic question is if brltty's speech support is only an 
>addition to braille or if brltty can be used also without a braille display 
>with speech only. 

It started out as an add-on, but, over time, speech support has been improving. I have no objection to trying to make it even better.

>IMHO currently working with speech only is at least hard and not allways easy, but maybe working with brltty and speech only is not intended which is also okay, if everyone is aware.

I wouldn't go that far, i.e. to declare that it isn't intended. I don't know how well other speech alternatives work, and see no reason why brltty's support for speech shouldn't be improved.

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