On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Eric S. Johansson <esj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Austin English wrote: > >> The active app is never a windows application, right? Is the >> application always launched before notepad, or can it be launched >> after notepad? >> > > In theory, it could be anything in Windows or wine. The important difference > is that we can use NaturallySpeaking's built-in tools to dictate into any > wine resident application (which is why dictating into notepad works) > > The way things work now, the target application can be launched at any time > up to the point where I need to paste the data. There is no coupling in the > current environment. The current line of thinking is that binding an > instance of the editor to an instance of the application would be a good > thing so that you could work in multiple applications and even leave > partially dictated thoughts in the editors while you go do something else. > The example this would be working on code or documentation as your long-term > process and then you get a phone call or an instant message they need to > deal with right away. You would then just switch to the new application, > bind a NaturallySpeaking connection to that application and then dictate > away. When you are done with the introduction, you return to where you were > and you haven't lost any data. > > Also, please don't think that all of these state changes need to be manual. > They really should be as automatic as possible so that I can bring up an > application and start dictating. I shouldn't need to do anything else to > make it possible for the text or the grammar driven command and control to > reach my target application. > > --- eric > > Speech recognition at work. It makes mistakes, I correct some > To list as well: You may be able to use AutoHotKey to cut and paste for you more automatically (http://www.autohotkey.com/). -- -Austin
