[Okular-devel] Okular - Speak text functionality for blind people

[Max Nicosia]

Dear Albert,

I would be happy to have a look and see what I can do.

Is there anyone within the team that could give me a short explanation on
how that part is implemented so I can have a bit of guidance when looking at
the code? Ie regarding how it communicates with ktts, etc.

I will be leaving in the next 5 min, but will be reading my emails tomorrow
morning.

Cheers
Max

On 5 July 2010 16:09, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> A Dilluns, 5 de juliol de 2010, Max Nicosia va escriure:
> > Hello there,
>
> Hi
>
> > I am a Comp Sci student from the University of St Andrews, helping out
> (at
> > DTU Denmark) with a project to make computers more accessible to blind
> > people.
> >
> > The main interest at the moment is to get blind people to use PDF's
> easily
> > and effectively (under Linux), so I have been asked to contact the
> > development groups of the main Linux pdf readers and see if they are
> > working towards implementing such functionality and offer collaboration,
> > or maybe even start on my own.
> >
> > At these stage I haven't looked the the implementation of Okular yet, but
> > Okular's speak function is very close to what would be necessary for a
> > blind person to read pdfs.
> >
> > Could you please let me know if someone is already working towards this
> so
> > I don't duplicate work?
>
> Well, we have the Speak feature that reads a document, not sure if that is
> what you want or not. In case it isn't, as far as i know noone is working
> on
> adding extra features to our speak functionality so we would be very
> interested in getting your work in Okular.
>
> Albert
>
> >
> > In the case that there isn't anyone working on this, I would be happy to
> > start. However I would need to look at the implementation of the other
> pdf
> > readers to see which one would be quicker to implement, as DTU is very
> keen
> > on getting something working rather sooner than later (there are some
> time
> > constraints).
> >
> > Thanks a lot
> > Max
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