[access-uk] Re: Skype

  • From: "Peter Beasley" <pjbeasley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:56:11 +0100

I know you are a jaws user which I am not, but skype talking will use your screenreader voice and not interfere withyour screenreader. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 4:50 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Skype



Hi Peter,
Well, thanks for all info. This sounds good but there are a few questions I have ...
First, does Skypetalking use its own voices and, if so, do you have to tweak your screen reader to silence it when using Skype? 

Second, is there a payment for this programme?

Thanks in anticipation of your response and then I'll get going!  <Smiles>

--
Carol
carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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---- Original Message ----
From: "Peter Beasley" <pjbeasley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 10:41 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Skype


Carol, the latest version of Skype is 4.2 and there are
both Jaws and window-eyes scripts available. However, there is a
program called skypetalking which you can install which knocks spots off
both scripts. I will post the information below. If you do install this
program, you will have to allow it to use skype.

Dear friends,
Proud to release exciting new version 0.8 of
SkypeTalking. This is the fourth release, and contains lots of new features and 
some bug fixes and improvements as well.
Comparing to first release from February (SkypeTalking
0.5), this is a big step forward!
Some highlights of this new release are chat monitoring,
easy way for changing a mood text on the fly, improved support for
file transfers, better reporting of call duration, contacts manager and
SMS support. I would like to thank again to all of the contributors,
as well as our second developer Gianluca who has also made a lot of work
on V0.8. Now regarding the translations. The following
translations still have to be updated. They will unfortunately be outdated in 0.8. 
These are as follows: czech, spanish, japanese, polish, portuguese and
chinese. All others are updated, including the documentation. I am
just unsure for russian and ukranian readme but whatsnew is
translated. We also simplified the installer, and jfwapi.dll is now
automatically registered, so users running 64-bit JAWS should no longer
have problems with SkypeTalking not detecting JAWS. SkypeTalking can
now also be launched with Alt+Ctrl+Shift+T hot key, which I didn't
mentione in whatsnew, so this will be updated for the next version
under 0.8 section. Everyone here on SkypeTalking mailing list was able to
follow how much work we've made on this new version, and thus every
feedback is welcome. We fixed some bugs, and some may be still present. The 
one problem that we are aware of is slower performance with some commands
e.g. slow loading of contacts manager, slow reactions with end call
command (alt+ctrl+shift+end) etc. Another bug is where
SkypeTalking will say New SMS when that's in fact a new file transfer. I also 
experienced some interesting problems where some events are not spoken
sometimes for some reason, so I ask myself, if they are spoken in general, 
then why they are sometimes ignored for no reason, even if ignoring is
off. I hope that we will be able to address these bugs, but in
general the program should work quite well.
Here comes the complete list of new features copied from
what's new document as well as the download link for both portable
and installer versions of SkypeTalking 0.8.
New: Added the ability to monitor active chats, in other
words, opened chat windows. Use keystrokes Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Function keys
F1 through F10 to set monitor on one of the last 10 active chats (press
twice to bring focus to that chat window). You can then use
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Numbers for reading last 10 messages in currently monitored chat. 
Pressing Alt+Ctrl+Shift+C will announce currently monitored chat,
and pressing it twice will bring focus to that chat window.
New: Added the ability to read and/or change your Skype
mood text. Pressing Alt+Ctrl+Shift+M will speak your current mood
text, and pressing it twice will open a dialog box that lets you
change your mood text.
New: Alt+Ctrl+Shift+O command reports the current user
online status, and when pressed twice, will report the user's current
balance on a Skype credit.
New: Added command for speaking the current call
duration, Alt+Ctrl+Shift+D. New: Added contacts Manager, accessed with
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+F11, which is the alternative to Skype contact list. It will display 
your contacts in a multi-select list box allowing you to select them with
a spacebar and perform various actions on them such as Call, Chat or
View Profile. It will also display the Last Seen information for offline
contacts, which is inaccessible with some Skype versions and to some
screen readers such as NVDA. The View Profile action will open a profile
viewer that will allow you to review the selected contact's details by
using the Tab and Shift+Tab and the arrow keys. The Call and Chat actions
are self-describing. Pressing Alt+Ctrl+Shift+F11 twice will
focus the original Skype contact list. If multiple contacts are
selected, then you will have options for creating a conference or a
multi-chat. New: Added commands for answering and ending a call,
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Home and Alt+Ctrl+Shift+End (not on the NumPad). Pressing
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Home during a call will toggle between hold and resume for the 
current call. Pressing Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Home twice quickly will answer
and join the incoming call to a conference. Pressing
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+End twice quickly will toggle microphone mute or unmute.
New: Added support for sending SMS with SkypeTalking. The
command Alt+Ctrl+Shift+S will now open an SMS wizard which will
allow you to send SMS to any phone number. There are two dialogs, one
for the phone number and the another one for the message text. When
entering a number, use semicolons to separate multiple phone numbers and
also include your country code. If everything is correct, press Enter to
continue. Next, enter your SMS text, then press Enter or tab to Send
button to send a message, or press Escape or Cancel Button to cancel
sending. While composing a message, you can press F2 to check out your
current SMS count, how many characters you have left, and also the
current SMS price. A Critical Stop sound will play in case when there
are 0 characters left in a message text.
New: Added a new option to settings dialog to
automatically quit Skype when exiting SkypeTalking. It's set to On by default. 
New: Added a new option to settings dialog, "Confirm when
exiting SkypeTalking". It's turned on by default, so now when
exiting SkypeTalking, you should also confirm that you want to
exit. If it's turned off, SkypeTalking will behave like in previous
versions, which means that it will exit immediately. This option was
added to prevent users from exiting program by accident.
New: Added the ability to customize SkypeTalking keyboard
shortcuts, though currently you have to use INI file for this. The
Key Bindings tab in the Settings dialog is scheduled for the next release. 
If the keyboard assignment in SkypeTalking.INI is incorrect,
than the default assignment will be used, but user will also be warned
about an invalid assignment. You can modify all keystrokes under the
[shortcuts] section. Please use this carefully, and also restart SkypeTalking 
if the changes didn't take affect immediately.
New: Added languages: Danish and French.
Changed: Read last chat message command changed from
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+M to Alt+Ctrl+Shift+R. Also when pressed twice, will move the 
focus and monitor to that chat.
Changed: Exit SkypeTalking command changed from
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+F4 to Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Q (for Quit).
Changed: The Settings Dialog command changed from
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+S to Alt+Ctrl+Shift+P (for Preferences).
Changed: Removed taskbar icon. You can now use associated
SkypeTalking commands instead of the right-click menu.
Changed: API wrapper version is now spoken when pressing
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+V twice, since this information is not
useful for the end users.
Improved: call duration is now reported in hours, minutes
and seconds. Improved: Added file transfer speed and data transferred
information to File Transfer Status command (Alt+Ctrl+Shift+F).
Improved: SkypeTalking will no longer allow multiple
instances running at the same time, and it will reproduce a Ding sound if
the user tries launching another instance of SkypeTalking by accident
while it's in memory. Improved: If the critical error happens while loading 
SkypeTalking, an error tone will be played from your PC speaker. Please
inform the developers about this as soon as it happens.
Bugfix: SkypeTalking will no longer ignore contacts that
haven't set their full names, and it'll speak their Skype Id's
instead. Thus, you will no longer hear something like "Skype: is online".
Bugfix: When opening settings dialog, the focus is now
properly set to Language Combo Box.
Bugfix: In settings dialog, the Ok and Cancel buttons are
no longer bypassed when navigating with Shift+Tab.
Download links:
SkypeTalking 0.8 installation program:
http://skypetalking.googlecode.com/files/SkypeTalking_0.8_Setup.exe
SkypeTalking 0.8 portable version:
http://skypetalking.googlecode.com/files/SkypeTalking_0.8_portable.7z
Feel free to forward this email to other mailing lists,
including SkypeEnglish, NVDA etc.
Also join me on the inovations show  on The Global Voice
radio where I will be presenting SkypeTalking to the listeners soon.
Greetings from Croatia/Zagreb,
Hrvoje Katic - SkypeTalking president


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