On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Eric S. Johansson <esj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [[apologies if this is a dupe. gmane is a bit odd sometimes]] > > I need some help on a handicap accessibility project. It's really great for > people like me that naturally speaking is working in wine (mostly). One > important shortcoming is getting our dictated text into linux. Today, in > order to copy text from the wine environment and place it in the Linux > environment, we need to dictate into the wine version of Notepad, cut the > contents of Notepad into the cut/paste buffer, then navigate to the "active" > application and paste. It's tedious but it's also significantly better > than running in XP and dictating into Linux applications using a Windows X11 > server. > > What I want to do is potentially very simple. I want to be able automate > what > I'm doing by hand. To dictate into an editor just like wine notepad and then > on > a command, transfer the contents of the editor buffer into the "active" > application. > > Unfortunately, simple doesn't mean easy. we need to make sure Naturally > speaking sees the right dictation target and that we can cut from the DNS > dictation target and paste into the "active" app in linux. > > A secondary wish is to be able to run the natpython environment such that > when > recognition happens in wine and the python code invoked by DNS grammars runs > in > linux. This would help disabled folks like myself by giving us a powerful > tool > for command and control of applications. > > this is a very rough sketch of what I want to do and some help with design, > implementation details, and coding would be welcome. Like many users of DNS > my hands were broken by coding and python is the only code spoken here (and > not all that quickly to boot because the tools aren't all that friendly). > > --- eric > > The active app is never a windows application, right? Is the application always launched before notepad, or can it be launched after notepad? -- -Austin
