KTTS accessibility
Bob Stia <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Sep 2019 14:56:51 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.devel.accessibility |
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| Organization | Easystreet |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
I am severly sight impaired and legally blind. I can see lines of text, but cannot read the words. As such I have utilized KTTS for several years. I have found it to be more than adequate for reading/speaking my selected text. I can select text in a document or an Email or a web page which sends it to the clipboard. The copy is then present in the KTTS manager. I then open KTTS manager which brings up the clipboard, choose jobs, then speak clipboard where it is spoken back to me. This is cumberson, but works fine. In the Chrome browser there is an app called select and speak. When you highlight text it brings up an icon and/or which brings up a menu and choose select or speak. This sends the selected text to a Google cloud, which then speaks the selected text back to you. We don't need a cloud, we have clipboard which receives the text. It would improve accessibility,if at all possible, when we right click the selected text a new item in the menu called the speak clipboard would appear, which would then automatically speak the selected text. It would be a good thing if this could be brought to the attention of the Developer of KTTS. Is this feasible???? Bob S