Re: Difference between speech enabling tools
- From: Andreas Stefik <stefika@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:43:41 -0500
SayTools: COM
accessible_output: Python
Phonemic: Java
I'm pretty sure that all of us have some code in common. There is
intermittent talk about combining all of the tools, which would
probably be good, as all of us support slightly different screen
readers, although making common, cross-language, bindings with a
unified implementation is a little complicated.
On the phonemic side, we also have a highly optimized threading system
for handling speech, and a post-processing system for handling speech
that needs to be read differently, as computer code often needs to be.
We do this largely to make NetBeans read more intelligently, but it is
pretty general purpose and could be used for all sorts of things.
Hope that helps,
Stefik
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Kerneels Roos <kerneels@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> While on the topic, how does saytools and accessible_output differ from
> phonemic -- the recent addition by the SodBeans team?
>
> On 6/27/2011 9:47 AM, Pugsley wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Christopher,
>> That explains the difference between saytools and accessible_output. I'm
>> still learning what tools are out there and what it means, when they can do
>> things like being built into com components. Another quick question. Is the
>> key to understanding these tools more related to learning how Windows works,
>> as in the Operating system ? I only have website PHP programming and a Mysql
>> background, so these com concepts and speech output are new to me. The intro
>> python books don't go into how to call into d l l files or set up com to
>> circumvent situations where you can't call into a d l l. Would an entry
>> level intro Operating system book, answer these types of quesions I have ?
>> Pugsley
>>
>> Q<q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Pugsley,
>>> I wrote accessible_output not being familiar with say tools. As far as I
>>> know, the only things that differ are that SayTools can be built into a com
>>> component for use in any language, and accessible_output has Braille support
>>> and more outputs working with Jaws, Wineyes, Dolphin products, NVDA, sapi 5,
>>> speech-dispatcher and VoiceOver.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/26/2011 4:33 AM, Pugsley wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Please excuse this newbie question, what is the difference between
>>>> SayTools and Accessible Output ?
>>>> They both use python and find out whether screen readers are installed
>>>> and default to SAPI to enable programs to become speech enabled? What
>>>> situations would you use one over the other ?
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