[Kde-accessibility] Proklam and KMouth

[Gunnar Schmi Dt]

Hello,

On Saturday 21 September 2002 22:26, Pupeno wrote:
> On Saturday 21 September 2002 14:45, Gunnar Schmi Dt wrote:
> > I am writing a project called KMouth, which enables persons that cann=
ot
> > speak to let their computer speak, e.g. mutal people or people who ha=
ve
> > lost their voice (like my mother, who cannot control her tongue).
>
> An intresting project, something like what Stephen Hawking uses except =
that
> Hawking case is more challenger as he has only three movable fingers to
> control the system.
>
That's right. KMouth assumes that the persons are able to use their keybo=
ard=20
(and possibly their mouse). However, there may be accessibility projects =
for=20
persons with only three movable fingers that enables them to use an emula=
ted=20
keyboard and an emulated mouse ;-)

> [...]
>
> I don't know how directly I asked but I wanted people to tell me their
> needs in Proklam, as nobody answered I designed it from what I new and
> thought. If Festival was working, Proklam would be already speaking, bu=
t I
> don't have any problem in making a complete redising I would be very gl=
ad
> to redisign it with you so it would achive your needs.
> Any other one intrested in Proklam (not in development, but in using it
> from other applications) is welcome to the discuttion.

Well, I think what I need is basically the possibility that KMouth can se=
lect=20
the language that is used for pronounciation. For the actual implementati=
on=20
the easiest way might be to extend Proklam to be able to use multiple=20
configurations at a time. The calling program can specify which of the=20
configured configurations it wants to use. Off course we need to have a=20
default configuration for when a program does not want to specify the=20
configuration.

Gunnar Schmidt