Hi David,
Sounds like a great app and looking forward to downloading a copy when
it is released.
I have one comment to make on how the reading of dates is handled
however. You mentioned in your message below that a date such as
31/3/2012 would be read as March 31 2012 as used in the American system.
I hope, for those of us using the British system of dates, this feature
can be turned off or altered so the date would be read as 31 March, 2012.
Cheers
Neville.
On 7/04/2012 12:00 AM, David wrote:
A couple of weeks ago, I did drop a message on the lists, informing you
all about a new app that is under its development. The app is called
Extended Dictionary, and intends to meet several of the requests from
many of you, for a better exception dictionary feature in Window-Eyes. I
have been working on the app for a good handful of weeks now, and the
Beta now is just about ready to be distributed to those of you who want
to participate in the Beta-cycle. I had a hope to have had it all
Beta-going already, but there has been a few days delay. This mainly due
to the time it took to write the quite excessive documentation for the app.
A couple of effects, that has been implemented into the new app since I
last did inform you of its features, would be:
When shipping, the dictionary will already have been set up in such a
way, that fractional numbers will be handled correctly. You no longer
need to listen to your recipes telling you to add 1 2 teaspons of salt,
when it actually meant half a teaspoon. With the app installed, your
fractions will read as "half", "quarter" and "thirty seconds".
It will further handle most dates, that are written in their short
forms. Like, when you see a date written as 21/03/-2012. It should now
read as "March twentyfirst 2012".
For those of you, who are doing a lot of measurement reading, and who
are tired of having either to guess which numbers are in inches, or deal
with the speech saying "quote" after each number, here is another little
goodie. The app ships with definitions, that should make most of
measurements in inches, be spoken like "one inch", "three quarter inch",
"fifteen inch", and so forth.
My goal is to release the Beta version for testing, to all that has
expressed their want to participate - right in the middle of next week.
Please be aware, that once the Beta has been distributed, it will no
longer be possible to join the beta-cycle. Therefore, for all who has
not yet expressed their wish to join, please drop me a line at the below
Email. Please do not expect to be included in the cycle, simply by
replying to this message on the list.
I specially welcome international users, or those of you, who make use
of more than one voice in your computer activity. Since the app stores
separate dictionaries for each voice, it is of importance to have it
tested in environments where the user frequently switches between
different voices. This whether he or she does so out of convenience, or
due to switching between multiple languages, with each their voices.
Might I even call specially for at least one user, who has access to an
external synthesizer, like a USB synth. I have tested the ap here, with
Eloquence, and a couple of SAPI voices, since that is what I have access
to; and expect most users would be using. But it sure would be nice, to
see if it works in conjunction with an external synth as well.
Welcome to a Beta-testing!
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