[nvda] Re: What Are you interested in?

Hi Storm dragon,
There are plenty of dlls that already can be used to speak things on a computer, though they are dependent on which kind of synth api you want to use. 

Check out c:\windows\speech
You can also download the sapi4 or sapi5 SDKs which will give you the c header files that give you the definitions for these functions accessible from the dlls.
As to NVDA being able to speak from other apps, well, I guess we could write a dll, or a com interface for that. Though I would probably keep this an NVDA specific dll because it would be probably nicer if NVDA could handle the messages, and use the current synth, and rate and voice etc, plus there could be a chance to also print it on the braille display etc. 

This is a nice idea though, I am not too sure how we should start with it.
NVDA could even perhaps listen for DDE messages, though I havn't ever playd with that kind of thing. 

Mick
----- Original Message ----- From: "Storm Dragon" <stormdragon2976@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 5:42 PM
Subject: [nvda] Re: What Are you interested in?
Here is something I am interested in doing. I am not sure if it is possible with Python because I have just started playing around with the language. I would like to make a .dll file that could be used by any application to speak things in the computer's default voice. In most cases, it would probably be Microsoft Sam, but for people who have other voices installed, it could be set to something else. I am almost thinking something like that would have to be written in C++ or one of the .net languages. It could be included with NVDA as a way to get it to interact with programs written specifically for screen readers like TextPal. It would be neat also to have the dll as a separate downloadable piece to include with self voicing applications. I guess it would have to be able to tell if it were speaking for NVDA and use the selected voice for it if it was installed, or use the computer's default voice if NVDA were not installed. Shouldn't be too hard though, sounds like a bit of if logic is all that would be needed. Unfortunately I have absolutely no experience with writing .dll files. 

Storm Dragon
http://www.stormdragon.us/
----- Original Message ----- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 9:09 PM
Subject: [nvda] What Are you interested in?



How about if each of us tells their interest in NVDA? I am interested in
providing braille support. My plan is to use the drivers for all the
braille displays covered by BRLTTY for basic braille support and to use
the liblouis library for contracted braille. These drivers and the
library are written in C. There will also be a higher-level Python
module for braille support.

--
John J. boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
JJB Software, Inc.
http://www.jjb-software.com
Madison, WI USA
Developing software for people with disabilities

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