[BRLTTY] Improving the speech support of brltty

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Eric Scheibler on 2012/04/27 at 00:40 +0200]

>nevertheless I want to list some points I found:

Please always feel free to do so. How else will it become better?

>1. I would expact num_8 as speak current line, 1x num_5 as speak current
>word and 2x num_5 in series spell current word.

Double key presses are possible, I suppose, but there's currently no support 
for them. I can also imagine that one might want to hear a word a few times, 
maybe, beofre finally giving up and wanting it spelled. What about adding a 
third key to the combination, like KP0, for having the word spelled?

>2. maybe we need the position of the speech cursor on the braille
>display. Something similar like the text prompt. This would make the
>orientation a bit easier. But the challenge is to choose a visualisation
>so that the user can't mix them. For example one cursor blinks and the
>other not.

Added to the list.

>3. It would be cool if I could change the position of the speech cursor
>with the routing keys of my braille display like I can do with the text
>cursor in the editor.

In the latest code, routing the system cursor also moves the speech cursor. 
Perhaps this isn't good enough since the screen cursor can't go everywhere. I'm 
not sure what the best solution would be for this but I'll add it to the list.

>4. I need a shortcut to get the speech cursor on the beginning or end of
>a line.

Do you mean the beginning/end of the screen line or of the part that's on the 
braille display?

>5. When I hold a shortcut pressed, the action should be repeated. For
>example holding num_+ and num_9 for a few seconds should cycle through
>the text lines.

I have a hard time imagining how well that'd work with speech since speech 
response is ultimately rather slow. If the autorepeating is fast, how would you 
ever know where you are?

>6. At the moment the situation in the text editor is not ideal. If I
>move around the speech cursor the standard text cursor does not follow.

In the latest code, KPPlus+KP0 brings the system cursor to the speech cursor.

>There are two possible solutions for that:
>A. Create a shortcut to bring the text cursor to the speech one.

See above. :-)

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