Re: [Emacspeak] SharpWin (AKA: Windows Native Support)

[John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds great -- I wish emacspeak would work with speech dispatcher, so
you could write a driver for your synth using that and then any
program would work and could use your synth.

I do have an older version of visual studio, so I have the .net stuff
and some of it even comes as part of windows -- at least the runtime
stuff.

On Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:04:38 -0400,
Robert Melton (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
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> > On Mar 31, 2024, at 10:44, Devin Prater (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> 1. Do you generally use a package manager tool like winget or 
> >> Chocolatey? 
> >> 
> > Yes, I use Winget, and Scoop.
> 
> Never heard of Scoop, but multiple people have mentioned it so I will 
> have to check it out. 
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> > 
> >> 3. In the primary screen reader you use on Windows, how hard
> >> is it to exclude a program like Emacs from it? 
> >> 
> > Exclude? Do you mean like NVDAʼs sleep mode, so it doesnʼt talk? Itʼs just a key command away.
> 
> Yep, that is exactly what I meant, on the Mac side you can have a rule 
> to turn off VoiceOver for certain apps. 
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> >> 4. How important is it that Emacspeak on Windows work with 
> >> your current screen reader?
> >> 
> > If it can, that would be kind of nice, but itʼs not too important. Also, I wonder if it can be made to work with DecTalk on Windows?
> 
> So, talking to some NVDA plugin authors now about if creating a 
> plugin that connects to a FIFO is possible and if it could also 
> route to one side or the other for notifications. 
> 
> Regarding DecTalk, since this is sort of the official solution, 
> I think after I finish SharpWin 1.0, which went way better than
> expected, maybe shipping 1.0 tomorrow, I will be playing with 
> getting dtk-soft to work on MacOS first, then I will explore 
> Windows a bit. Just want to get solid native support built out
> that is long-term supportable using the common languages (C#, 
> Swift) and the common libraries (.net, avspeechsynth). 
> 
> > 
> >> 5. Do you already have dotnet cli installed? make? 
> >> 
> > Probably. If not, itʼd be easy to install it.
> > 
> >> 6. Anything else I should know / be aware of in Windows land 
> >> that will sneak up and bite me?
> >> 
> >> As I might for work reasons have to use Windows in the near
> >> future, this likely will be my priority in the short term
> >> while swiftmac 2 stablizes and gets merged. 
> >> 
> >> Thanks for reading! 
> >> 
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