[jawsscripts] Re: When Speech is Finished
- From: Steve Matzura <number6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:57:58 -0400
I know how much I love it when people respond to messages like this
and say things like, "Gee, that's a good question, and I don't know
the answer, but ..." Well if ya don't know, then sit on your hands and
don't type!
OK, so I'm going to ignore my own advice and stick my head right in
the lion's mouth, something for which I'm well known probably for 50+
of my 58 years now! LOL, and maybe give us all something to think
about and maybe find the answer to along the way.
That would depend on the indexing capability of the chosen
synthesizer, which capability I believe has fallen out of use or
availability over the years. Remember how you could query DECTalk and
have it tell you when it was done speaking via its indexing function?
For the life of me, I don't know any other speech device, hardware or
software, that offers that capability, with the possible exception of
the Audapter, or maybe one of the really super-older boxes like the
Prose boards, the Speequalizer, or even the old Synphonix boards.
Surely, if something like Eloquence, or any other software speech
engine, could do this, we'd have heard about it by now and would be
all over it, not to mention there'd be a function for it. In
applications for which I programmed DECtalks as voice response units
(VRU's) years ago, the indexing functionality/capability the DECtalk
boxes offered was essential to the speed and operation of the
application, used so folks could interrupt speech by selecting their
option of choice without having to wait for rambling output to stop
speaking.
What's interesting is that somewhere buried deep within some secret
silent subroutine space is a function that will shut speech up and
dump the buffer when the end-user presses the correct key, commonly
the CTRL key, there's a brief pause while the buffers refill, then
speech recommences. So at least we know from this that the
stop-speaking-and-dump-buffer function exists, and it's universal
among every synth JAWS supports. This makes me wonder, is the other
half of this, the ability to query the synth and find out what it's
doing or when it's finished doing whatever it's doing, buried in
there, too, and it's just not being made use of by anything? Food for
thought.
On Sun, 27 May 2012 17:31:12 -0500, you wrote:
>Does anybody know if there is a way to query jaws about whether or not the
>synthesizer is done speaking, and has gone silent?
>The situation involves wanting to play a sound file, but wanting to wait
>untill the yammering ceases before playing the file.
> Is there a way to do that?
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