Dear Patrick, Am Samstag, den 30.07.2011, 14:59 +0100 schrieb Patrick Welche: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:22:59PM +0200, Frederik Elwert wrote: > > * Dasher, as a complete different approach. I might be a good > > replacement for a regular virtual keyboard once mobility > > decreases to a level where a regular keyboard is hard to handle. > > But it seems not to be very well maintained, it???s quite unstable > > and I did not manage to get all of its functionality working > > I'm sorry to hear this - please let me know what problems you are having...
With the version in the Ubuntu repository I couldn’t get speech output working, and the direct mode was unreliable (only few of the characters were actually passed to the target application). > We have already put together dasher running on android writing into > talkadroid to provide mobile speech generation (both available from > the android market place). > > The most recent dasher in the git repository > (git clone git://git.gnome.org/dasher) will use speechdispatcher or > gnome speech if it is installed on your system, and in combination > with "control mode" will speak what you write. Okay, that sounds interesting. I’ll try out the latest code, maybe it already solves the issues I had. Otherwise, I’ll report back. In the documentation for dasher[1], it sais that it’s also possible to speak each word or on stop, not just in control mode. But I didn’t find any way to configure that. (But since control mode already failed, I didn’t investigate further.) I also just found a blog article that describes how to set up OpenMary as a speechdispatcher module.[2] That would probably allow to integrate dasher with OpenMary easily. On the other hand, if I write a speech synthesis frontend for normal keyboard use anyway, I might also just use dasher for text input and leave the rest to that application. I’ll see what works best. Thanks, Frederik [1] http://library.gnome.org/users/dasher/unstable/reallife.html.en [2] http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2011/05/05/speak-to-me/ -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility