voice-cat/clients/windows/VoiceCat.App/Notifications/SpeechAnnouncer.cs

using Prismatoid;

namespace VoiceCat.App.Notifications;

/// <summary>
/// Spoken event announcements via Prismatoid (bindings for the Prism speech library —
/// integrates with the active screen reader / system speech, no extra runtime deps).
///
/// All construction and calls are wrapped so a machine with no available speech backend simply
/// degrades to silence rather than crashing the app.
/// </summary>
public sealed class SpeechAnnouncer : IDisposable
{
    private readonly PrismContext? _context;
    private readonly object? _backend; // SpeechBackend; held as object to keep this resilient

    public SpeechAnnouncer()
    {
        try
        {
            _context = new PrismContext();
            _backend = _context.AcquireBestBackend();
        }
        catch
        {
            _context?.Dispose();
            _context = null;
            _backend = null;
        }
    }

    /// <summary>True when a speech backend is available on this machine.</summary>
    public bool Available => _backend is not null;

    /// <summary>Speak <paramref name="text"/>. Queued (does not interrupt prior speech) so a
    /// burst of events is read in order.</summary>
    public void Speak(string text)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(text)) return;
        try
        {
            if (_backend is { } b)
                ((dynamic)b).Speak(text, interrupt: false);
        }
        catch
        {
            /* never surface a speech failure */
        }
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
        try { (_backend as IDisposable)?.Dispose(); } catch { /* ignore */ }
        _context?.Dispose();
    }
}