#4480 NORM Never A: Screen reader

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#4480: Screen reader
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 Reporter:  assim                                 |       Owner:  jg            
     Type:  enhancement                           |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal                                |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  distro                                |     Version:                
 Keywords:  killjoy, espeak, screen reader, dbus  |    Verified:  0             
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 We are currently developing a screen reader service for XO. The basic
 script has been completed. Till now we have implemented espeak as a D-bus
 service.
 A user can click and select textual data anywhere in the Sugar Environment
 for Text to Speech Conversion.
 The task left is to invoke the screen reader script via a key-board
 shortcut(which has to be made) OR via gui button in activity toolbar.
 major change in the system would be
 1) Inclusion of scripts which implement the espeak dbus service, and ctype
 python linking of the libespeak library.
 2) Addition of alsaaudio.so (It is required to play the audio data)
 3) Addition of speakit.py which accepts the String data from sugar
 environment
 4) Addition of a keyboard shortcut or GUI button in activity toolbar. (TO
 BE DONE)
 Can someone from sugar development team quickly help us set up the
 keyboard shortcuts and/or gui button for invoking the scripts? We really
 hope to get the screen reader service into the Code Freeze.

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