KTTS accessibility

[Simion]

Hi Bob,
I have similar issues as you, my suggestion is to use Jovie it has tray 
icon  with menus and you can and should setup keyboard shortcuts.
Then even when in browsers you just do a Select text,Ctrl+C  and then 
press my Speeck clipboard button.

About browser extensions, browsers have the ability to speak text 
without an internet connection , the issue I had was making the browser 
connect/detect my espeak so there should be extensions that do not 
connect to Google, I personalty prefer  to keep the number of extensions 
to minimum and I send everything trough Jovie.  What an extension could 
do is for example when you want to read a reddit thread to remove all 
the "reply,report,save" text after each comment , it did not bother me 
enough to do it so far.

A bit offtopic, is there a community place where we could discuss this 
kind of project that are related with TTS but not KDE specific?
We could share our setup , tricks, scripts we use , for example I 
patched Open Morowind to have it  read the dialogs and books, I made a 
script for RPG Maker games that run in browser to read the text to me
I have a script that can try to OCR text from other games but all this 
are hacks/not polished and are not for general use. This days I am 
thinking if I could somehow inject something into DirectX games and 
intercept the text drawing code and have it it sent to  a script to be read.

On 9/18/19 9:56 PM, Bob Stia wrote:
> I am severly sight impaired and legally blind. I can see lines of text, but
> cannot read the words. As such I have utilized KTTS for several years. I have
> found it to be more than adequate for reading/speaking my selected text.
>
> I can select text in a document or an Email or a web page which sends it to
> the clipboard.   The copy is then present in the KTTS manager. I then open
> KTTS manager which brings up the clipboard, choose jobs, then speak clipboard
> where it is spoken back to me. This is cumberson, but works fine.
>
> In the Chrome browser there is an app called select and speak. When you
> highlight text it brings up an icon and/or which brings up a menu and choose
> select or speak. This sends the selected text to a Google cloud, which then
> speaks the selected text back to you. We don't need a cloud, we have
> clipboard which receives the text.
>
> It would improve accessibility,if at all possible, when we right click the
> selected text a new item in the menu called the speak  clipboard would
> appear, which would then automatically speak the selected text.
>
> It would be a good thing if this could be brought to the attention of the
> Developer of KTTS. Is this feasible????
>
>
> Bob S
>