Hi Tom.
While I certainly understand what you mean, ---- afterall that's why I
use
Hal with orphius and not sapi (and even if I did, I'd muck about with
pronunciation and verbosity with Hal), when I described it as a bug, i
meant
that it is a flaw in the vip mud program when outputing to sapi which
does
not exist when using it with screen reader support.
Sinse the program is billed as allowing the user to play muds with
sapi, ---- and this issue makes that not possible (due to unexpected
death
through not knowing character status), it is therefore at the least, a
serious issue in program support.
For obvious reasons I'd have not bought the program if it only supported
window eyes and jaws.
but before we go too far down the "I wan my money back" road, ----- or
indeed anything near that very nasty pathway, as i said to Che, it seems
this is a more individualized sapi problem which I am having, sinse I was
able to do a test by having a friend also use vip mud, scansoft daniel
and
materia magica, ----- and found that the text there read without a
hitch, ----- and in fact after a second experiment, it seems the same
problem occurs in medievia which displays it's text in the same format.
I coppied that text into a text file and then tried reading it with Jim
kitchin's text file reader ----- which obviously uses sapi, and again, it
wouldn't read.
so, the cause of the problem isn't vip mud or materia magica, ----- or
even
sansoft daniel, it's sapi!
the problem is i've no idea where to go from here, sinse (as you rightly
pointed out), sapi has no verbosity controls or similar abilities for the
user to mess with how it speaks certain things.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 3:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Vip mud sapi problem
Hi Dark,
That's not necessarily a bug. Comparing a screen reader to a software
speech system like Sapi isn't really a good comparison in this instance.
While text to speech systems like Sapi have there own dictionaries that
tells the synth how to say various words, numbers, and punctuation
marks,
etc any third-party software such as a screen reader can over ride the
voice's built in speech dictionary. For example, in Jaws you can
configure
it to say numbers as whole numbers, single digits, or in pares. So a
string of numbers like 1, 9, 8, 6 can be spoken as 1,986, 19 86, or 1 9
8
6. That's a simple case where the screen reader overrides whatever the
text to speech voice would ordinarily say given the same number in
another
application.
Bottom line, just becauseJaws says something correctly it doesn't mean
the
Sapi voice or application using Sapi is buggy. It is more likely that
Jaws, Window Eyes, Hal, etc has performed some extra speech processing
behind the scenes and is more accurate.
Smile.
dark wrote:
Hi Che.
sinse that line reads fine with JAws and not with Sapi, I would
actually
class it as a bug, ---- I'm only using scripting because it won't
automatically read.
I've tried the command with what I believe to be the correct syntax in
the trigger dialogue, ----- as I detailed, but either I did something
wrong, or there is something more intrinsic to why sSapi won't read a
line written in betwene less than greater than prompts.
I'm really not sure sinse as I said, apparently it reads fine with
other
speech methods.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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