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Use text to speech to announce the focused window in i3wm
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i3speaker.py
import i3ipc
import pyttsx3
i3 = i3ipc.Connection()
tts = pyttsx3.init()
def on_window_focus(i3, e):
focused = i3.get_tree().find_focused()
# Verbose output
# tts.say((focused.workspace().num, focused.name))
# Less verbose, just announce application name
tts.say((focused.workspace().num, focused.window_class))
tts.setProperty("rate", 350)
tts.runAndWait()
i3.on("window::focus", on_window_focus)
i3.main()
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