GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 612681
Pause Speech
Last modified: 2012-10-05 03:01:05 UTC
(Another idea from the brainstorming session at Braille Without Borders Innovations center ... ) Press a key to pause speech mid-sentence and press the same key again to start the speech again. Right now you can touch any key to stop speech but I have seen users struggle to find when they are esp. when there are in the middle of large document or many open applications . This kind of feature is available on other screenreaders and quite useful if you get phone call when you are using computer, you can pause speech and continue from that point on when you get back to the computer.
If you are doing a SayAll when the phone rings, press Ctrl to interrupt speech. After you hang up from the phone call you can give the SayAll command to pick up where you left off. If the phone call was long and/or your memory short, you can first use whereAmI to get the title of the current window, flat review to read the current line, and then having reoriented yourself, resume SayAll. Orca doesn't queue up speech like an audio recorder. Nor does your environment freeze while you are on the phone.