[BRLTTY] Speaking text when it appears on screen

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Hi, thanks a lot for the prompt response!

Dave Mielke (2026/08/11 03:54 -0400):
> There's no way, today, to do that although Mario has written a pager
> named caret which you could use.

Am I correct, though, that Mario's tool rather targets files whose
content is already completely available?

If so my use case looks slightly different to me. Concretely, what
triggered the question for me was that I am playing a MUD, I know this
may remember things to Aura who already mentionned the topic here. In
some situations it gets very important to know what is displayed on the
screen quickly as one needs to react to it in a timely manner.

But I think the feature would benefit beyond such a niche use case, for
instance to follow the output of a build or any other log, actually.

> This being said, I can imagine an addition to brltty which would more or less give us this.
>
> We could add Speak Iserted Lines to Autospeak. If enabled, autospeak would remember the previous line and track that content. If there's nothing to autospeak on the current line, i.e. if the current line has remained unchanged, then look upward for what the previous line used to be and speak all new lines between that location and the current line.
>
> this wouldn't be perfect but it might be close enough.

In any case, this sounds like a very nice starting pointto me, at the
least. And I'd be happy to test.

Seb.