Great idea, but don't know about the technical feasibility. additionally you
did not tell on which operating systems you are building it. first you have
to get a good TTS programs for local languages as for many Indian languages,
we do not have TTS with good legibility.
Umesha
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ejaz" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, 16 February, 2012 1:11 PM
Subject: [AI] Multi lingual Overlay on Win OS
Dear all,
Here is something interesting that stuck me today and I want to hear from
the list members for the same.
I am a part of a software development team and accidently we came across
the
idea of having a software that shall function as an overlay on top of the
existing OS. This overlay shall act as an interface delivering all
standard
applications that are a part of most commonly used.
The idea is that all the menus, actions, open file, save file, all
commands,
for Office Suite, Internet Explorer, windows explorer functions, paint-
Free
hand Drawing , Email Client, calculator, folder management, media player.
What does it mean?
Eg:- Internet Explorer, All the features of a standard browser's menus
will
be in local language+ it shall be voiced out to the user. Also all the
content of the Page in the browser, irrespective of the language of the
page
shall be read out in the same language, auto detection of language and the
necessary TTS shall be included.(at the moment the idea is toyed around
Hindi / Marathi / Punjabi/ Guajarati). It means that you open two web
pages
the first one in English and the next page in Hindi, the first page shall
be
rendered to the user in English and the second one in Hindi, without the
need of changing any setting by the user.
Office Suite:- the difference between the open office suite offering the
menus in local language and this overlay is that all of the menus are
voiced
out and hence the need of screen reader is not required. when you click
File(in local language) all the options are read out including assistance
to
navigate as jaws would do. And all the actions of the resulting click
shall
be performed as standard actions of MS Office.
Windows Explorer:
Directory listing, searching folders, all menus that are used for
performing
actions remain as it is however the voicing out shall be in local
language.
It is also little difficult here to describe everything in a mail, also I
am
not intending to write a spec document encouraging debate, it is just an
idea(not from the software's point of view as snippets to do such a thing
are in place) and hence would like to seek if this kind of a overlay shall
address any help to users in particular. In a nut shell it's an overlay
performing all actions of a standard Windows Operating System but the feel
shall be in the local language. Also kindly be noted that this is not a
screen reader. But all the menus are still accessible on its own. Healthy
discussion is always accepted on my Id offline too.
Depending on the responses / Comments I shall take further steps in
communicating to all you.
Thanks and Regards,
Ejaz Shaikh,
Pune.
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