Hi Dark, Yeah, I personally don't get what is wrong with Sapi either. It is a quick and easy API, works fairly well for what it does, and there are plenty of voices available for it. However, as a guess I suppose the voices are precisely the issue people have with it.
A lot of Jaws users, for example, are use to Eloquence. Since Eloquence is not a Sapi voice they can't just use that with a game without the developer going through the Jaws API to use the screen reader directly rather than accessing Eloquence via Sapi. For that reason I guess some people want Jaws support so they could use Eloquence and the various Vocalizer voices which aren't available via Sapi. Of course, there is probably a cost issue here as well. Anyone who has a fairly up to date version of Jaws has a number of TTS engines and voices from Eloquence and several Vocalizer voices. They probably don't want to turn around and buy more voices from Cereproc, Cepstral, Nextup, etc given the fact that Jaws already offers them a lot of free voices. In short, as a guess I think the reason many users want screen reader support is because of the voices etc their screen reader provides aren't available for Sapi or are available at extra cost. Some of us who don't use Jaws, such as myself, aren't missing anything by using Sapi because we do not have various free TTS voices to miss. I use NVDA and own a handful of Sapi voices so using Sapi rather than my screen reader makes sense in my own case. Cheers! On 3/6/14, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Personally I agree with Josh, I don't see what is wrong with sapi. Sinse > dolphin have (up to last year), been so precious about the api for > supernova, very few games have run with it, but that's not stopped me > playing Vipmud, alteraeon with Mush Z, Lone wolf etc. > > > The exception of course is making textual games such as interactive fiction > > accessible, as happened with the choice of cave game I mentioned, however > these days all the screen readers have working virtual cursers so just > writing the text to the screen without clutter is fine. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
