If you find windows code arduous, the code that it requires to make sapi even begin to function will make your head spin. :) It's worse than the normal code, I avoid that more than I avoid trying to use the messaging system. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane W" <shane-speakup@xxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [OT] emulating a hardware synth > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 04:43:17PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote: >> I was wondering, though: is Jaws strictly necesary? I don't have or >> use it myself. > > It is and it isn't. The way it's written now, it uses Jaws > for the speech. However, the .c files is there for the > changing so adding other engines should be trivial. I > looked at doing it with SAPI but I couldn't figure out the > interface. The JFWAPI is pure C, it's simple and it works. > If an alternative API exists, I'm all for it. It looks as > though IBM ViaVoice with the EHCI API is no longer > available for Windows. That's unfortunate as it'd enable > us to implement much more of the Accent's commandset. > > Shane > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
