Willie Walker wrote: >Hi Roland: > >Glad to hear the gnome-speech thing just worked itself out without >requiring mods to gnome-speech. :-) > >Dynamic language detection/switching is definitely an interesting thing >to consider adding to Orca. Right now, however, it's not really on the >core team's radar screen - we're still going to be busy fleshing out the >really important stuff, such as access to the web via Firefox 3. In >addition, we don't have much experience with simultaneously handling >multiple locales, so we might not be qualified to do the work. > >If someone in the community were so inclined, however, to create a patch >to allow this, I think I'd be happy to review it. ;-) > > In case someone gets motivated, I think the relevant AT-SPI methods (for determining the language/locale of UI components), and gnome-speech methods (for determining the locales/langs which a TTS engine can speak) are these:
Accessibility::Application:getLocale (the locale of the running app) Accessibility::Image:imageLocale (useful for determining the locale of ALT text/imageDescription) Accessibility::Document:getLocale (for when the document specifies a locale different from the viewing app) Accessibility::Text:getAttributeRun (text tagged with a different LANG will have an explicit LANG attribute) GNOME::Speech:SynthesisDriver:getVoices(in VoiceInfo) - see GNOME::Speech:VoiceInfo.language The latter call to gnome-speech can be used to find a speaker suitable for a particular locale/lang. Best regards, Bill >Thanks! > >Will > >On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 09:50 +0200, Roland Zitzke wrote: > > >>Hi, >>just wanted to report that I managed to run Orca, Gnopernicus and >>gnome-speech (the former trouble maker) on an AMD64 Edgy system by simply >>using the latest installation packages - great work. >>By the way: is there any (planned) facility to dynamically change >>localisation in Orca? The rational behind it is that people like me who work >>with more than one language would like to use different TTS systems for >>different languages. There is for instance a German version of the Festival >>speech system but I couldn't find any means to change it from within a >>running Orca session. >>Would this be left to scripts? >> >>/Roland >> >>_______________________________________________ >>gnome-accessibility-list mailing list >>gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org >>http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >gnome-accessibility-list mailing list >gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org >http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
