John Boyle wrote:
To Users and Eric: Sorry, but at least in Windows Dragon and Knowbrainer and Univoice, a new add in, have a fighting chance to work with Open Office! It has become MORE than just a macro package and there are two places to go read up on the package, One is the Knowbrainer sales website and the Other is the Knowbrainer forums, which go into what works and what does not!
univoice, vocola and the raw package underneath natpython, cannot overcome some of the more significant deficiencies created by NaturallySpeaking without a huge amount of work.
In order to make open office work with NaturallySpeaking plus some add-on, we need the ability to extract the content currently visible on the screen, makes accessible to NaturallySpeaking in a way it can understand and operate on for features like Select-and-Say. We've done this with Emacs and it wasn't easy. If there is a person on accessibility team for open office is willing to do the work, it would be wonderful. The reason that those of us who have the need don't do the work is because we don't have the hands. At least not enough hands to make progress very fast.
It would be an interesting project. I've got at least three open-source projects to roll out before I'm going to be able to tackle anything else. For what it's worth, one of them is a web development framework using a markup notation that is more accessible to speech recognition users than the traditional HTML environment. I think it would even be more friendly to blind users with text to speech output as well. But I'm not really sure since I haven't tested it with them.
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