I’m tying to build a custom computer for a blind friend ( he is 60 years old and has never worked with a computer), its going to be a potcast recording machine, that he can use by himself. I want to keep the learning curve as low as possible, thats why I am writing a golang cobra cli app that has all commands needed to record and listen to episodes. A background service will upload these episodes to my server where another person does post production and publishing.
For the raspberry pi based studio I need a tty based screenreader. Existing CLI screen readers are either complex to setup or limited.
I was woundering if I could use Elvish as the primary shell but add TTS to automatically read:
- Command output
- File/directory listings
- Error messages
- Navigation feedback
- while writing out a command having an option the read the command
then my user could learn my custom cli as well as a few tools like ls,cat, etc and that woud be more than enough.
My question is if I could use something like htgo-tts (GitHub - hegedustibor/htgo-tts: Text to speech package for Golang.) a simple Go library with speech.Speak("text") API to add text-to-speech to elvish ?
The htgo-tts libary is not perfect beaucse it needs network acces to fetch the audio, but thats not my point. I can also use something else.
If can implement TTS ,how would I capture the output and how would I integrate this ? Or is this very difficult ? If @xiaq says its doable, I would probably give it a try because blind users should have a better, simpler way of interactiong with a terminal.