From: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 19:41:55 -0500 (EST)
To: yeep <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2 
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The better synthesizers have dictionaries as part of their software
components.
The speech synthesizers sometimes have drivers and sometimes it's a
simple
executable that runs tsr.
Dictionaries could be educated for this purpose.
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, yeep
wrote:

> I gather that a speech syntesizer uses a software driver?
> If so, we might me able to change the driver to 'speak' even the weird
> chars.
> 
> 	Yeep
> 
> 
> > Would prove a problem for speech synthesizer equipped systems as well
> > unless characters were either spoken as numbers or descriptor strings
> > were
> > associated with each character such that when a cursor was moved on top
> > of a
> > character either the number or descriptor string were spoken.
> > On
> > Sat, 1 Mar 1997, yeep wrote:
> > 
> > > >Why not sticky key facilities for the alt key such that if a
> particular
> > > >combination is used it toggles them on and off.  Maybe alt-s, don't
> know
> > > >since
> > > >someone else may already use that combination.  Once the sticky keys
> are 
> > > >on
> > > >any key that's not on the number pad that's hit generates an error
> beep.
> > > >The sticky key mode could also adjust the numlock state as well.
> > > >once that's done, we're down to logical selection of numbers for
> > > >functions.
> > > >One question I have is whether numbers could be entered higher than
> 256
> > > >and if so could any
> > > >response be elicited from those entries once done.  If that's possible
> > > >the feasible limit is 256-999 and
> > > >our sticky key mode might automatically add that 255 to every value
> > > >entered to help provide a little
> > > >user protection too.  I know mskermit has some pretty unique scan
> codes
> > > >that it uses and generates so this might be possible.
> > > 
> > > Why not use the same facility my organizer does?
> > > Let's say that pressing a certain key combo (ctrl-alt-s, for instance)
> > > loads a special font (with possibly more than 256 chars) and a
> selection
> > > menu.
> > > You then select the special character you want.
> > > This way you won't need to remember all those funny numerical values of
> all
> > > those funny chars.
> > > 
> > > I think this could prove a problem for gui's and stuff, though.
> > > But it's just an idea
> > > 
> > > 	Yeep
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>
> > 
> 


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