[BRLTTY] Improving the speech support of brltty

[Dave Mielke]

[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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