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[Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>]

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

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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 AT emacspeak.net> 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:
>> 
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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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