[jawsscripts] Re: Saying two messages with a specific period of silence in between

  • From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:18:34 +1000

Wow, I'm seriously surprised jaws doesn't already include some logic/decent
indexing functions like this doug. are you in constant communication with
Erric and developers about this kind of thing? surely you guys are REALLY
WHAT SHOULD BE DRIVING DEVELOPER AND MARKETING SCHEDULES AS REGARDS
IMPROVEMENT TO THE JAWS ScreenReader in general ought not you?

you are the ones that have the real knowledge of what stuff needs to be in
there to make what needs to happen, happen.

From: "Doug Lee" <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:00 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Saying two messages with a specific period of
silence in between


> This is a very clever suggestion actually, and one I think I tried
> once but forgot about.  It may help, but I still doubt it will work as
> well as you'd like.  The SayAll process does not actually keep code
> execution in precise sync with speech.  You can stop SayAll on an
> exact word, but this is actually done by retreating to that word
> rather than literally catching JAWS in the act of saying it.
>
> The SayAll system does prove, however, that JAWS internally has enough
> information to implement something like I suggested before, direct
> access to synthesizer indexing functionality.
>
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:03:23PM -0400, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
> This is a hack, but you can do a SayAll in the user buffer, and tell
> when it completes with the SayAllStoppedEvent function.  You could
> either speak the second message within that function, or use that event
> handler to set a global variable indicating that a SayAll has stopped.
> Your script would go into a While loop testing the global variable
> before exiting.
>
> Jamal
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> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I would like JAWS to say two messages with exactly two-second silence in
> > between.
> > Neither Delay (20), nor twenty Pause () commands works,
> > since both starts right after the first message is sent to the TTS, not
w=
> hen
> > it's completely spoken.
> > I tried counting number of words in the first message,
> > and calculating the time needed for it to be completely spoken using the
> > current speech rate.
> > The result varies based on the total number of sylabels in the message.
> >
> > Can you think of a better solution?
> > As far as I know, there is no function such as TtsIsDoneEvent or
IsTtsBus=
> y.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Camille
> >
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