keyboard events

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org>]

dear all,

i have a small project in mind.  xvoice is an application that uses IBM's
speech recognition API.  currently, it uses "synthetic events" to send
information to X applications.  this is how X gets gets "words" from your
speech.  many applications don't like synthetic events since they're
considered a security risk.

i was thinking of looking into a module which takes xvoice events and inject
them into the kernel as keyboard input.

currently, i don't have the faintest clue how to do this.  it seems like
this is what a USB keyboard needs to do.  so that may be a good start.

if anyone has inspiration, words of wisdom or tidbits which might be
helpful, can you share them with me?

thanks!
pete

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