[OT] emulating a hardware synth

[Tyler Littlefield]

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 at csy.ca>
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
>
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