Re: Announcing Phonemic 1.0
- From: Alex Hall <mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:34:34 -0400
It sounds more like a centralized way to make your application speak.
Some applications make extensive use of text sent directly to a screen
reader, such as GMA's Solitaire games or the Qwitter Twitter client
(http://www.qwitter-client.net). The latter has no dialogs at all,
except for settings, and relies on the active screen reader being made
to speak new tweets with no visual element at all. Phonemic sounds
like a way to do this in java; no applications will become accessible
because of this, though it is now possible to write screen
reader-friendly applications in the sense that the application can be
made to speak what it has to say. However, gui programs in java will
be just as inaccessible as they are now when you look at it from a gui
standpoint since this just offers developers a way to interface with
the speech output of screen readers and not to actually give the
reader more information about on-screen controls.
On 6/1/11, Katherine Moss <Katherine.Moss@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So for folks using this, does it mean that the java access bridge is no
> longer necessary? That's the way I'm seeing it, but I may be wrong.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andreas Stefik
> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 4:11 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Announcing Phonemic 1.0
>
> All,
>
> My team would would like to officially announce the release of software
> product called Phonemic. Phonemic 1.0 is an open-source library for doing
> screen-reader compatible text-to-speech in Java.
> Phonemic can be used on a host of operating systems and is the same
> text-to-speech engine used in the Sodbeans project and in the Hop
> programming language. It can be downloaded from our sourceforge page:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/phonemic/
>
> Here are our official release notes:
>
> = Phonemic version 1.0, June 1, 2011 =
>
> == Introduction ==
> This is the first official release of the Phonemic speech library.
> Phonemic is a Java library that allows its users to write cross-platform
> speaking applications.
>
> == Big Features ==
> * Support for many major speech systems, including Microsoft SAPI, JAWS,
> NVDA, VoiceOver and ORCA.
> * Provides a single API to communicate with all engines.
> * Support for various types of speech modifications (when available):
> * Volume control
> * Pitch control (either manually or automatically through the speakChar
> functions).
> * Speed control
> * Speech modifications are consistent across engines.
> * Support for blocking speech calls (when available).
> * Ability to query an engine for its features.
> * Ability to switch engines on the fly (Windows and Mac OS X only).
> * A queuing system that enables the use of speech priorities, even when not
> supported natively by the engine.
> * A speech processing mechanism to enable advanced pre-processing of speech
> before it is sent to an engine.
> * Ability to query for / change voice when supported by the engine.
>
> == Supported Engines ==
> Phonemic currently supports the following platforms and speech engines:
>
> * Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7:
> * Microsoft Speech API (SAPI)
> * JAWS
> * NVDA
> * Mac OS X
> * Carbon (on Intel Macs only), the same speech interface used by
> VoiceOver.
> * The `say' command
> * Linux
> * speech-dispatcher (available by default on Vinux and Ubuntu), the same
> speech interface used by ORCA.
>
> == Usage ==
> The Phonemic library is a .jar file that must be included in your java
> project. In addition to the phonemic.jar file, your program must include the
> appropriate JNI libraries for the various platforms you intend to support.
> These files can be found under the jni directory.
> For more information on how to use Phonemic, see the wiki page:
> https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/phonemic/wiki/UsingPhonemic
>
> The libraries are as follows. Note that if you do not intend to support a
> particular platform, you do not have to include its libraries in your
> distribution.
>
> * Windows XP (32-bit only), Windows Vista and Windows 7
> * Interop.SpeechLib.5.3.dll (SAPI supporting DLLs)
> * SappyJNI.dll (SAPI, JAWS and NVDA support, 32-bit)
> * SappyJNI64.dll (SAPI, JAWS and NVDA support, 64-bit)
> * nvdaControllerClient[32|64].dll (NVDA support)
> * Mac OS X
> * libCarbonSpeakJNI.jnilib (Carbon support)
> * Linux
> * libLinuxSpeakJNI.so (speech-dispatcher support)
>
> A simple demo application is included as a Netbeans project under the
> example directory.
>
> == Build Notes ==
> Although libraries come with Phonemic pre-built, should you want to modify
> any of them, it is necessary to use the following systems.
>
> * Windows
> * To modify the Windows DLL (SappyJNI/SappyJNI64.dll), Visual Studio
> 2008 must be used. The libraries will build on Visual Studio 2010, however,
> they will not run on all systems.
> * Mac OS X
> * To modify the Carbon speech library, libCarbonSpeakJNI.jnilib, you
> must
> use XCode 3. (3.2.1 preferred) XCode 4 has not been tested.
> * Linux
> * The Linux library (libLinuxSpeakJNI.so) can be loaded as a standard
> Netbeans project.
>
> I would like to thank my team here for their work on the project, including
> Kim Slattery, Susanna Siebert, Melissa Stefik, and especially Jeff Wilson,
> the lead developer on this project.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Andreas Stefik, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Computer Science
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