I wrote a Dart package for speech-dispatcher, enabling TTS on Linux. It also works with Flutter for Linux. The package supports most features of speech-dispatcher, with additional support for less commonly used functionality like history coming soon. It still needs broader testing, so feel free to open any issues you encounter. My hope is that one of the TTS packages for Flutter will start using it to add Linux support, as most, if not all, currently don't support Linux.
Sonos has a plan to fix the new software
Here is when Sonos wants to bring back the features they "forgot" in the new update:
Screen reader for visually impaired customers: May 21
Adding and editing alarms: May 21
Adding to queue and pla…
FluffyChat v1.18.0 adds some new features, fixes a lot of bugs and improves the notifications on Android by showing them in a conversations style. Voice messages got the ability to change the play speed and the status header is now optional.
Whenever I discover a new GUI toolkit, my first question is always “is it more native than the Web?” For reference, here are some ways Web apps have better system integration than Flutter:
System fonts, font hinting settings, and font fallback settings.
System text navigation shortcuts.
System scrollbar visibility, thickness, and click settings/behavior.
System highlight menus and controls (on touchscreens).
System display scaling settings.
System reduced-motion settings (An API is documented, but I have never used a Flutter app that actually disables animations. I may be wrong).
System reduced-transparency settings.
System forced-colors mode (Windows High Contrast Mode).
System color palettes (some browsers support setting default colors without necessarily forcing the palette).
System media controls (play/pause/skip, current track, e.g. using MPRIS on freedesktop platforms).
It’s an easier question to answer than my second question: “What WCAG conformance level can I hope for?
Early #Perl luminary and author (#OReilly camel and llama books, many magazine articles, etc.) Randal Schwartz, a/k/a merlyn, is in dire financial straits.
He needs gainful #employment NOW of any kind, and although his #programming language of choice now is #Dart and the #Flutter framework, he’s willing to fall back on his @Perl chops.
FluffyChat is an open source, nonprofit matrix client created using Flutter, the open source framework that allows building beautiful, natively compiled, multi-platform applications from a single codebase. The app is easy to use, secure and decentralized.
