[DECtalk] wuesion about DECtalk in screen readers

Mohamed malhajamy at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 05:55:09 EDT 2015


I'm interested in it as well.

On 07/09/15 05:29 PM, Jake Gross via Dectalk wrote:
> Mohamed, to interact with the virtual machine, press ctrl+g.
> Alix, can you please send me the dectalk addon that can somewhat sing?
> Thanks.
> Jake
>
> On 7/9/15, Mike S via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>> Jeesh it's too bad. I used to use ASAP in DOS and it had a keystroke
>> called "zap text to synthesizer" which did just that: shoot whatever
>> you typed right to the synth with no processing whatsoever.  I feel
>> like technology has gone backwards in a lot of ways.
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> On 7/8/15, Alex H. via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>> I got dectalk to sing in NVDA but it was irritating. You had to
>>> hard-code the stuff in order to get [:phone on] to work, and in any
>>> case it was limited by only being able to send the same commands in
>>> each chunk of text sent to the synthesizer; I did that by modifying
>>> the speak function in the driver itself. So in other words, it was
>>> impossible and unrealistic.
>>>
>>> I also made JAWS kind of sing using Dectalk, using a different tactic.
>>> I modified each punctuation in the JAWS config manager to not be a
>>> string, putting literal punctiation marks like brackets in places of
>>> the word bracket and so on. But then, JAWS does something screwy with
>>> spaces, so none of the commands with spaces as expected worked. So a
>>> sample tts command would be something like: [:dvpr200gh70ri90]...
>>> Which is annoying to read and didn't always work. Plus, there were
>>> side effects in this method of making Dectalk speak differently using
>>> the punctuation hack thing I explained above.
>>>
>>> There's nothing that is a screen reader that can let Dectalk have full
>>> control of the strings of text that are spoken, at least as far as I
>>> know.
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> On 7/8/15, Mohamed via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>> Odd that in Patrick Perdue's demo, it didn't end up working out.
>>>>
>>>> On 07/08/15 12:41 AM, Jitendra Kumar via Dectalk wrote:
>>>>> Well I remember one thing: in earlier days, Hal from dolphin access
>>>>> used to accept many DECtalk commands, including sm,ri and many others.
>>>>> it does not include the singing part though.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/8/15, Jake Gross via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Speaking of singing screen readers, ibm desktop reader accepts the
>>>>>> eloquence speech commands.
>>>>>> This means I can use notepad as an eloquence speak window.
>>>>>> Ibm desktop reader was the mini screen reader that was bundled with
>>>>>> ibm homepage reader.
>>>>>> It works on windows nt 4.0, windows 2000, and windows xp.
>>>>>> A Windows nt 4.0 and a windows 2000 virtual machines with ibm desktop
>>>>>> reader included can be found at http://grossgang.com/vmware
>>>>>> Jake
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7/7/15, Mohamed via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> And also if only the NVDA add on supported speech commands. But then
>>>>>>> again, it's probably very difficult to get the preprocessing NVDA
>>>>>>> does
>>>>>>> out of the way.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 07/07/15 02:49 AM, Brandon Misch via Dectalk wrote:
>>>>>>>> it does work now if we can solve the jaws and access 32 issue that
>>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>>> be nice.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Jul 6, 2015, at 2:56 PM, Piotr Machacz via Dectalk
>>>>>>>>> <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>> I vaguely remember that I was able to get the system access dectalk
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> change voices, but that was back in 2007 or 2008. It may still
>>>>>>>>> work.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 06 Jul 2015, at 20:35, Mohamed via Dectalk
>>>>>>>>>> <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi guys, so, I have another DECtalk question. So, are their any,
>>>>>>>>>> if
>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>> all, any screen reader implementations of DECtalk that actually
>>>>>>>>>> support
>>>>>>>>>> speech commands and singing? I know that many screen readers can't
>>>>>>>>>> support it because of all the punctuation preprocessing they do,
>>>>>>>>>> but
>>>>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>>>>> was wondering if their are any screen readers that support DECtalk
>>>>>>>>>> speech commands.
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks.
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