Hi Jim, Yeah, you are right. With a turned based game automatic speech isn't always necessary.
For instance, I can remember back when I was in college and downloading and playing the demo of PCS Games Monopoly for Dos. Actually, it was very accessible, and worked well with ASAP, Jaws for Dos, and Vocal Eyes. Most of that is do to the fact that it was mostly menus and text prompts. Would you like to buy Pennsylvania Railroad for $200? Enter y/n. That's just a standard ordinary text prompt, nothing special about it, and since it is a turn based game you don't rreally have to have SAPI for that. You have time to route your review cursor to the screen and read the prompt if your screen reader doesn't read it automatically. So its no big deal. However, as you said it is sometimes nice to use the different SAPI voices rather than Eloquence or something like that. Speaking of that I've got a suggestion for you that might help you. I know you said your version of Jaws is very very old, and I can't honestly blame you for not wanting to pay out a small fortune to upgrade to Jaws 12. There is a free screen reader for Windows called NVDA 2010 I use a lot, and its really beginning to turn out to be a nice low cost alternative to Jaws, Window-Eyes, Hal, etc. It supports ESpeak, SAPI 4 and SAPI 5 voices, and I've heard there are some third-party patches that allows you to install and use Eloquence if you want it. Since my copy of Window-Eyes is current I don't really need it, but I do know from using it that NVDA has fairly decent support for Firefox 3.x, Thunderbird, Internet Explorer 7/8, Microsoft Word, etc. It might be worth it to check it out if you'd really like to use something like AT&T Crystal, AT&T Mike, or AT&T Charles as your default screen reader voice rather than Eloquence. Cheers! On 4/13/11, Jim Kitchen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dark, > > That is an excellent point about automatic speech being important in a live > action type game and definitely not so much for a turn based type game. The > only other thing for me is that I have many sapi5 voices that I like much > better than Eloquence and my version of Jaws can not use any of the sapi5 > voices. > > BFN > > Jim > > You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me. > > [email protected] > http://www.kitchensinc.net > (440) 286-6920 > Chardon Ohio USA > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > 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/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. 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/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
