Re: Programmatically to Make Voiceover to Speak?
Re: Programmatically to Make Voiceover to Speak?
- Subject: Re: Programmatically to Make Voiceover to Speak?
- From: Chi Kim <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:34:18 +0000
- Thread-topic: Programmatically to Make Voiceover to Speak?
Hi Patti,
Thank you for your response.
I'm developing an app that will be running in the background to assist
blind users to use another app more efficiently.
The speech feedback will be only provided on demand via pressing
shortcuts, so it will not interrupt VoiceOver.
Users will sometimes query certain information quite frequently like
every few second, so it will be ideal to post announcement through
VoiceOver. Then users can hear the announcement with the exact voice
setting that they're used to.
The target app is pretty accessible with VoiceOver, and I'm just making
enhancement. Something similar to this.
http://flotools.org/
I'd appreciate any suggestion!
Thank you for helping with this!
Chi
On 6/14/2017 2:08 PM, Patti Hoa wrote:
> Hi Chi,
> Currently VoiceOver will only listen for announcement notification on the
> frontmost active window.
> VoiceOver users are very selective about what they want to hear, so
> announcement notification should typically used minimally, and as a last
> resort.
> Maybe if you can explain what type of announcement you are wishing to post
> from your menu bar app, we might be able to find a different mechanism.
>
> Patti
>
>> On Jun 13, 2017, at 6:11 PM, Chi Kim <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to make Voiceover to speak something using Swift/Objc?
>>
>> NSAccessibilityPostNotificationWithUserInfo only seems to work when the
>> app is active and window is visible. The app I'm working on is menu bar
>> app, so there's no window.
>>
>> I tried NSSpeechSynthesizer, but it does not honor the speech setting
>> that Voiceover uses.
>>
>> I'd appreciate any pointer!
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> Chi
>>
>>
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