From kde-core-devel Wed Apr 19 18:22:01 2000 From: Richard Moore Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 18:22:01 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: KTalkEdit reading for testing X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=95616859101105 As I mentioned last week, I have been looking at how to add support for speech synthesis to KDE 2. I have just uploaded ktalkedit, a talking editor (a hack of KEdit) so that people can have a play. I'd be interested in any thoughts, and of course any help! You will need to have Festival installed to use this app, see http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/download.html I recomend using the RPMs to install it as it's a pain to build it yourself. At the moment it is just a hack, but it already supports 'read text' and 'read selection', in addition there is a first step towards a screen reader. To make this progress much further I will need some extra methods in Qt (many of which should have been there already IMHO). For example the screen reader can tell you the names of menu items, but it can't tell you the names of menus because of a limitation in the QMenuBar API. Rich. -- Richard Moore rich@ipso-facto.freeserve.co.uk http://www.robocast.com/ richard@robocast.com http://developer.kde.org/ rich@kde.org