Voice Control of KSTARS? - by: lynxsky

I would like to make KSTARS accessible to an astronomer with extremely limited keyboard and mouse skills due to Parkinsons. One approach would be to use scripting and workflows to do automated observing and capture for him. What I was hopeful in addition is that there might be dictation enabled commands that would allow him to navigate some of the common functions of the KSTARS menus that require keyboard/mouse input. KSTARS has many Ctrl-Letter sequences that can be easily captured in the accessibility functionality of the MAC for example. I can say "Hey" then "find" (Ctil-F and the cursor is sitting Where I might like to enter "MOON" but since the KSTARS input field is not text I have not figured out how to dictate instead of typing. Any experience in Mac, Windows, or Linux environments with passing dictation type commands directly into KSTARS as a substitute for keyboard? Im interested in participating in a comprehensive long-term Voice-activated KSTARS strategy, as well as a short-term partial functionality.

Example of Mac voice activated "what's up tonight Menu" command here: t.co/lddUbfzCBm