Re: KTTS accessibility

From looking at  https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo it
seems there are a few general accessibility mailing lists targeted at linux
users, but if you mean something more generic than that there are probably
some elsewhere also.

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 1:33 AM Simion <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Bob,
> I have similar issues as you, my suggestion is to use Jovie it has tray
> icon  with menus and you can and should setup keyboard shortcuts.
> Then even when in browsers you just do a Select text,Ctrl+C  and then
> press my Speeck clipboard button.
>
> About browser extensions, browsers have the ability to speak text
> without an internet connection , the issue I had was making the browser
> connect/detect my espeak so there should be extensions that do not
> connect to Google, I personalty prefer  to keep the number of extensions
> to minimum and I send everything trough Jovie.  What an extension could
> do is for example when you want to read a reddit thread to remove all
> the "reply,report,save" text after each comment , it did not bother me
> enough to do it so far.
>
> A bit offtopic, is there a community place where we could discuss this
> kind of project that are related with TTS but not KDE specific?
> We could share our setup , tricks, scripts we use , for example I
> patched Open Morowind to have it  read the dialogs and books, I made a
> script for RPG Maker games that run in browser to read the text to me
> I have a script that can try to OCR text from other games but all this
> are hacks/not polished and are not for general use. This days I am
> thinking if I could somehow inject something into DirectX games and
> intercept the text drawing code and have it it sent to  a script to be
> read.
>
> On 9/18/19 9:56 PM, Bob Stia wrote:
> > 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
> >
>