Continuous reading in Emacspeak and Cursor Movement

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Fri Oct 2 15:49:18 UTC 2020


Hi,


On Friday,  2 October 2020, at 16:21, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
> The intent of emacspeak is to be a working environment for computers.

What does this mean? Does this mean that Emacspeak is aimed at computers
rather than humans?

I thought it made all sense that it had to be customizable such that
there had to be an option for toggling continuous reading and continuous
speech without cursor movement. However, I feel that speech moving along
with cursor makes sense rather than to make Emacs like a music player
where you have to listen and not care where the cursor is at the moment.
But even with a music player, there is an option to pause and resume
where you left off. With Emacspeak though, you can't resume where speech
was last delivered.

    And it gets confusing. 
Thanks.



>
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 09:51:22
>> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: Continuous reading in Emacspeak and Cursor Movement
>>
>> Unfortunately, due to the good Doctor Raman's views on
>> Emacspeak's obstinance from being anything close to a "screen reader,"
>> there is no such feature. You're supposed to use Emacs like a sighted
>> person, mainly just using C-v and M-v to scroll, stuff like that. But then,
>> he did add C-e n, that command is there, so who knows. I just use C-v to
>> scroll, and C-s and just search for where I left off at.
>> Devin Prater
>> sent from Gmail.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 2:28 AM Linux for blind general discussion <
>> blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am used to continuous reading in Orca whereby the cursor moves along
>> > with the speech. In Emacspeak, however, I don't seem to get this
>> > feature. So my question is: is there any way one can do continuous
>> > reading while cursor is moving? I would prefer to have a cursor
>> > positioned at the place where I call the pause or stop functions.
>> > By the way, I use C-E n (Control +E and n) for continuous reading. The
>> > frustrating thing is that even after reading a big chunk of a document,
>> > once Emacs receives notification, I have to try to find the spot where I
>> > think the last word spoken was. I think it may not be the optimal
>> > situation for reading or reviewing documents.
>> >
>> >
>> > If anyone is using Emacs, please can you share how you deal with reading
>> > documents? I am open to any ideas for this situation even if it means
>> > using any other screen reader  other than Emacspeak.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Ishe
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