Emacspeak discussion list

[Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>]

> On Mar 31, 2024, at 10:44, Devin Prater (via emacspeak Mailing List) 
> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> 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! 
>> 
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