Mythspeech - mythtv for blind/visually impaired

[Peter Vágner]

Hello,
I am in however I have no one to ask for help while setting it up so I 
am afraid I am not going to be usefull for quite sometime.
I am interested in accessible tv solution for linux so no mather what 
turns out promising I will start using it.


Greetings

Peter



On 23. 12. 2012 0:36, faginbagin wrote:
> On 12/22/2012 05:39 PM, Peter Vágner wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I understand mithtv is full solution but writing qt accessibility
>> support is going to be damn complicated. It is a huge codebase and no
>> one has ever considered accessibility before.
>> I would be happy if something like this existed but I think it is not
>> a project for a few open-source developers developing in their spare
>> time.
>
> The problem I have is: will it be more complicated, and more kludgy than
> trying to extend what I've done by building on MythTV's support for LCD
> displays? All of MythTV's user interface objects are subclasses of a
> base MythUI class, and there aren't that many subclasses. I think an
> approach based on Qt accessibility is doable.
>
> FWIW, I'm retired and I used to be a pretty good developer, so I think I
> have the ability and the time to make MythTV accessible to those with no
> or poor vision.
>
> Another problem I have, before investing more time and effort, is
> whether the mythtv devs would be likely to accept my work into the
> mainline source code. For that, I think I need to demonstrate there's a
> "market" for talking mythtv. That's why I joined this list. Although
> mythspeech is not a complete solution, it is a starting point and I
> would love it if I could recruit some more users.
>
>> BTW do you know projects such as gnome dvb daemon or tvheadent? These
>> dont implement user interface and perfecting and / or writing a totem
>> plugin for these would be avesome as well. Those apps can be setup
>> without eye sight even now however gnome dvb daemon is somewhat buggy
>> and not used frequently and tvheadent is stable, has web based
>> interface. There is excelent fully accessible client for Android for
>> it. So maybe oneday someone will like to create accessible client app
>> for linux as well.
>
> No, I am not familiar with those. I am a MythTV user, and a retired
> developer, looking for ways to combine my interests and my skills. I'm
> not so sure I'm ready to learn about projects that do less (from my
> perspective) than MythTV.
>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>> On 22. 12. 2012 22:45, faginbagin wrote:
>>> I'd like to announce Mythspeech, which makes it easier for the blind
>>> and/or visually impaired to use MythTV, an open source DVR (digital
>>> video recorder).
>>>
>>> Information about MythTV can be found here: http://www.mythtv.org/
>>> It is supported by Ubuntu and there is a Ubuntu based distribution
>>> customized specifically for MythTV, Mythbuntu: http://www.mythbuntu.org/
>>>
>>> More details about Mythspeech can be found here:
>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythSpeech
>>>
>>> Mythspeech is not a perfect solution, but I'm told by one user:
>>> "Maria is VERY happy with her talking MythTV, and it has made her life
>>> so much easier!"
>>>
>>> How imperfect is the current implementation of mythspeech? One glaring
>>> example is that it cannot help with the initial setup and configuration
>>> of MythTV. I think you will need some vision or a friend or family
>>> member who can help with this step.
>>>
>>> I would very much like to talk to developers with experience in
>>> accessibility. The current implementation of Mythspeech builds on
>>> MythTV's support for LCD displays and uses speech-dispatcher's API, but
>>> I'm thinking a better long term approach might be to implement Qt's
>>> accessibility classes. MythTV is a Qt application, but it does not use
>>> Qt widgets.
>>>
>>> I would also like to know if there are interested users whose first
>>> language is not English. MythTV has been translated into many languages,
>>> and mythspeech should be able to speak in those languages, if they are
>>> supported by speech-dispatcher. But there are some things that could be
>>> improved if there is interest.
>>>
>>> Of course, I welcome any and all feedback, bug reports, etc.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Helen
>>>
>
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