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  • From: John Covici <covici AT ccs.covici.com>
  • To: Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>
  • Cc: Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater AT gmail.com>, Emacspeaks <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net>
  • Subject: Re: [Emacspeak] SharpWin (AKA: Windows Native Support)
  • Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:51:17 -0400
  • Organization: Covici Computer Systems

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 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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