brailcom/speechd

Adding immediate pausing support

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#877 opened on Mar 17, 2024

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

From @eeejay : “SD supports pausing only at a mark or at the end of an utterance, not an immediate pause to speech like any other media.”

The web speech API apparently wants immediate pause support

Describe the solution you'd like

There should be a way to request immediate pausing, which ignores indexing constraints, and can thus pause anywhere.

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Research direction
Examine the existing pause implementation and the speech synthesis engine interface to add a method for immediate pause that bypasses the marking constraints.
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