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

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dilluns, 5 de juliol de 2010, Max Nicosia va escriure:
> Dear Albert,

Hi

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

Good

> 
> 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.

The main interfacing with ktts in is ui/tts.cpp, the code is pretty well 
isolated, if you realize the use of the OkularTTS class is only inside 
ui/pageview.cpp, if you have a look at it and have some doubt on how to 
proceed, send another mail or drop by the #okular IRC channel in the freenode 
network where we can try to discuss things live.

Albert

> 
> 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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