Re: Orca now running on AMD64 with latest Edgy installation

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

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
> >
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