Speech Dispatcher is a good idea, looking at it I am unlikely to use it as it seems like not too much focus is on the Windows or Mac stuff. I am working with the native systems on both OSes. I actually did explore using both the Espeak command line tool which works on multiple platforms and using Mary TTS (Java) and that didn't work out either, so back to native I go. Speaking of that, sorry the release of SharpWin is lagging a little bit, in chasing some bugs I ended up building a little python script that lets you write test scripts for Emacspeak and list to the results, so current building feature by feature tests of swiftmac and SharpWin. https://github.com/robertmeta/emacspeak-test-tool ---- If you grab the git now of SharpWin, it should mostly work, but unless you want to look at code, wait a day or two. > On Apr 3, 2024, at 18:51, John Covici (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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: >> >> [1 <text/plain; utf-8 (quoted-printable)>] >> >> >>> On Mar 31, 2024, at 10:44, Devin Prater (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> 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. >> >> >>> >>>> 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 NVDA’s sleep mode, so it doesn’t talk? It’s 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. >> >> >>>> 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 it’s 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, it’d 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! >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Robert "robertmeta" Melton >>>> lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> Emacspeak discussion list -- emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> To unsubscribe send email to: >>>> emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of: unsubscribe >>> >>> Emacspeak discussion list -- emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> To unsubscribe send email to: >>> emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of: unsubscribe >> >> -- >> Robert "robertmeta" Melton >> lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> [2 <text/plain; UTF-8 (8bit)>] >> Emacspeak discussion list -- emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe send email to: >> emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of: unsubscribe > > -- > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > How do > you spend it? > > John Covici wb2una > covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Emacspeak discussion list -- emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send email to: > emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of: unsubscribe -- Robert "robertmeta" Melton lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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