CPAN module Term::Clui

[Steve Holmes]

I have never had an occasion to use this but it sounds interesting.  I
had no idea any extra attention was paid to make it self voicing.
Thanks for telling us.  I might have to give it a try some time.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 09:11:33PM +1000, pj at pjb.com.au wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm a CPAN author and have recently been taking an interest in linux
> for the visually impaired.  I'm mainly interested in setups using
> speakup, and ebrowse or emacspeak.  One of my modules is Term::Clui
>   http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Term::Clui
>   http://search.cpan.org/~pjb/Term-Clui-1.62/Clui.pm
> which offers a high-level user interface to give command-line
> applications a consistent "look and feel".  Its metaphor for the
> computer is as a human-like conversation-partner, and as each
> question/response is completed, it gets summarised onto one line and
> remains on-screen, so that the history of the session gradually
> accumulates on the screen and is available for review, or for cut/paste.
> 
> Since version 1.60, a speaking interface is provided for the visually-
> impaired user; it now works with either eflite or espeak.  Because
> Term::Clui's metaphor for the computer is a conversation-partner,
> this works naturally.  The application needs no modification.
> Speech is turned on if the CLUI_SPEAK environment variable is
> set to a non-empty string.  Since 1.62, if speakup is running,
> it is silenced while Term::Clui runs, and then restored.
> 
> It doesn't use speech-dispatcher yet because that package doesn't
> seem to work on my debian squeeze.
> 
> There is an equivalent Python3 module, with (as far as possible)
> the same calling interface,
>   http://www.pjb.com.au/midi/TermClui.html
> at
>   http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/PJB/Term-Clui-1.62/py/TermClui.py
> which you just have to copy into your PYTHONPATH.
> 
> I'd be glad to hear from perl-folk or python-folk about how
> Term::Clui relates, in practice, to visually-impaired use...
> 
> Regards,  Peter Billam
> 
> http://www.pjb.com.au       pj at pjb.com.au      (03) 6278 9410
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>  ihm immer gehorcht?"   Siegfried to Mime, from Act 1 Scene 2
> 
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