I agree. It would be great to have more flexibility in the dictionary. I
just don't get, why did they ever remove the feature, if it already existed?
After all, the dictionary feature of WE - as it stands today - is that
(sorry for the expression) old-fashioned, that I more or less have stopped
using it. There is way too many limitations, meaning that the things you
really want to modify in the speech, you are not allowed to - or at least I
never seen a good workaround. Spaces, special characters, punctuations - the
list goes on. Maybe that was the reality when I was a child, that computers
could not handle that kind of stuff in an exception dictionary. But that is
several decades ago. The screen reader I was using under DOS, in the
mid-80s, did have a better pronounciation dictionary capabilities, than what
is the case with WE7.5 - close to thirty years later. OK, GW tells us to
sing the old song - you can just script it. Good enough, if anyone wants to
build such an app, that would let us use a greatly increased dictionary
feature; I am one of the users that would have embraced such a thing. Even
other software - that is not build to serve you as much as a screen reader -
do hold far more advanced capabilities on that front. What about the chance
of adding on phonems, to your pronounciation? That was one of the things my
old DOS-based screen reader could do - Under Windows, I can have TextAloud
do it - but can I get WinEyes to do that stuff? If anyone knows how, let me
please know.
Well, as I said, if anyone who has the skills, could have build that script
that GW did encourage us to write at an earlier state, when dictionary
questions came up; I would greatly have appriciated that. Unfortunately, I
don't have the skills, nor the time to do it. And, I never was aware, that
GW would have reduced the functionality of the feature; like it seems from
your quotations. Kind of puzzled, why they did such a reduction. Guess, they
had a reason for doing it; but wonder if that reason still is applicable.
Technology do evolve, don't it? Smile.
----- Original Message -----
From: "mop" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 7:31 PM
Subject: putting the ability to put the space in the original field of the
exceptions dictionary
I quote a small part of the window-eyes changes of 4.1 to 4.11. This is
from the general enhancements section.
We solved problems reading by character with the mouse in the properties
dialog in
Windows Explorer for a file. This was introduced in 4.1.
We fixed a problem that prevented you from doing a bottom right and then
prior character
with the mouse.
We now treat Via Voice Outloud 5.0 like Eloquence 5.0.
We now disable the abbreviation dictionary with Eloquence.
We no longer allow you to type spaces in the original field in the
exception dictionary
dialog
We found cases where windows were being created as checkboxes and then
switched to
radio buttons. Window-Eyes will now account for this. Note that this could
in theory
happen with buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, and group boxes and we
take all cases
in to consideration.
We removed the exclude from lines Braille option from the edit graphic
label dialog
Notice the sentnece
We no longer allow you to type spaces in the original field in the
exception dictionary
dialog
Since this was taken out, why can't it be put back in to window-eyes. I
would appreciate assistance in this matter because I would very much like
to find this ability in window-eyes.
thanks
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