[DECtalk] some very very great news

Alex H. linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 13:20:46 EDT 2015


Woe man! That's actually really, really cool!

Great news indeed. It'll make working at a desk all day real fun. :D

On 9/24/15, Mohamed via Dectalk <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone. I have some very,, very, very great news to tell you all.
> The NVDA DECtalk can now not only process commands, but can now sing!
> Here's how you get it to work. First, ensure you have the latest next
> snapshot of NVDA with DECtalk installed. Then, go into your dectalk.py
> file. There's a line of code that is actually blocking speech commands
> from coming to the synthesizer. It's marked with the comment, "#prevent
> control strings from going into our text", just search for a number sign
> and it will come up. Although if you want the code quickly, paste this
> line into the find dialog. Note: be sure to tab three times, I am unable
> to put them here because thunderbird just puts several spaces instead of
> the tab symbol.
> item = item.replace('[:', ' ')
> Remove that line only, and leave the rest. Now, there's a new combo box
> introduced in the latest next snapshot of NVDA called send actual symbol
> to synthesizer. Find the left bracket, right bracket, underline, less
> than, greater than, and colon symbols. In the combo box that says send
> actual symbol to synthesizer, set that option to always for each symbol.
> And, enjoy your new singing NVDA!
> PS.
> Make sure you read it from the top of the file from the [:phone on]
> command to the end so DECtalk can process them correctly.
> PPS
> Since NVDA has no synth specific symbols dictionary, you may notice side
> effects of the change with other synthesizers.
> Hope you guys enjoy.
>
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