-----Original Message-----
From: net bat [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 4:58 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Extended Dictionary- Release note!!!
i would not install it right now.
it hosed w e 7.5.4.1 speech.
i am getting garbage speech no matter which synth i used. dectalk,
ivona
and neo speech. i had to use nvda to uninstall the enhanced dictionary.
messed up the w e menus so i could not uninstall it without nvda
running
and turning the w e voices to 0 volume.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 1:48 PM
To: David
Cc: WE English mailing list ; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Extended Dictionary- Release note!!!
Will it work with a hardware synth?
David <[email protected]> wrote:
OK, all you listers,
who so patiently have been waiting for the new Extended Dictionary
app, that I have announced was under development.
YOUR WAIT HAS COME TO AN END!
The full package, is now available from app central.
Name: Extended Dictionary;
Version: 0.60;
Category: Utilities;
Release date: 2012-08-31.
Below you will find a paste of a couple of the chapters, taken from
the User's Guide of the Extended Dictionary. This should give you a
good feeling of what the app might do for you. Please take your time
to study the User's Guide in full, as it will greatly answer many of
the questions you have. You can open the User's Guide from anywhere on
your computer, at any time, by hitting the hotkey:
Alt-Shift-9.
It will automatically keep track of which chapter you last read, so it
will be easy to pick up on your reading at a later state.
Hopefully, you will find this app to meet your expectations. I know it
has been a long wait for many of you, but there has been a few things
to sort out.
May I once again, thank you ALL the Beta-group, who so generously gave
of their time and efforts - as well as the whole app developing
community, who has given me many feedbacks and suggestions. A great
thanks to Chip Orange, for his thorough Scripting-classes.
Please, take your time to read the information pasted below, and enjoy
the package.
Regards,
David P
(Norway)
The Author of the Extended Dictionary package.
---Taken from the User's Guide:
SUPPORT
Due to the great number of users, and the complexity of individual
built of Entries and Dictionaries, the Author is unable to offer
individual support for users of this package. As the end-user, you
therefore are encouraged to make use of the general communication
channels for Window-Eyes related products. Here you will have
assistance from a number of technical and dictionary experienced
users. The Author of the Extended Dictionary package, will also
participate on the GW mailinglist for Window-Eyes, to the extend time
and energy permits.
Thanks for your understanding in this regard.
FEATURES
Of The Extended Dictionary Package
The Extended Dictionary package offers you the following features.
Please, be sure to read the full documentation, to learn the full
meaning of all the features.
Simple and seemless installation. Installs in approximately two
minutes.
Separate Voice-Specific Dictionary for each voice installed on your
computer - ensures optimal flexibility in tayloring the exceptions and
replacements to the individual voice.
Separate Software-Specific Dictionaries, ensures optimal tayloring of
exceptions and replacements - even down to the individual applications
you are using.
Each synthetic voice can have its own set of Software-Specific
Dictionaries for the individual applications you are using.
Simple and easy editing of your Dictionary files, directly in Windows
Notepad.
Simple Entry structure. Like: children=kids.
You can use any character in your Original string, and replace it with
very few limitations.
You can enter a single character, or a combination of characters, a
word, part of a word, or a whole phrase or expression - as your
Original
string.
This means, you can have a phrase like:
Simon says: "Go home!"
replaced with things like:
The manager is tired.
All text can be replaced with sound clips, small sound files on your
computer.
Easy-to-use functions for Backup and Restoration of your complete set
of XL Dictionaries.
Thorough User's Guide, holding more than 50 chapters. Dealing with
Dictionary building from very simple entries, way up to really
advanced entry-making. Filled with real-life samples.
Specially designed feature for capturing spoken phrases.
Specially designed feature for validating dictionaries. Will let the
user know, if conflicting entries are found.
Simple and intuitive User Interface in English, Dutch or Norwegian.
Automatically switching UI Language, based on the synthetic voice
currently in use.
Most dates now should be spoken in full version - like Janurary 26th,
instead of just a set of numbers.
Fractional numbers from 1 to 100 included. You no longer will hear a
fraction read as a set of two numbers. Rather you will hear things
like "three tenths", "half" or "three quarter".
Measurements in inches will be recognized and pronounced accordingly.
the ruler now will be "12 inch" long, instead of only 12, or "12
Quote".
A number of abbreviations, words and manufacturer names are handled
by
the shipping Dictionaries.
A few emoticons are included.
And more.
INSTALLING AND INITIATING THE PACKAGE
The Extended Dictionary app, will disregard the native Exception
dictionary of Window-Eyes. You won't need this Built-in feature of
Window-Eyes anyway, since all your existing entries should
automatically be integrated with the Extended Dictionary from now on.
Installing the Extended Dictionary app, is pretty easy. Simply run the
downloaded .WEPM file. Window-Eyes will immediately initiate the app,
and make it an integrated part of your screen reader experience.
First time you run the app, it will need to unpack the whole set of
dictionaries that ship with the package, along with the documentation
files and a few other files. All of this unpacking might take a few
moments. You will hear a few messages spoken throughout the process.
This is all normal. Simply give the installation process the needed
Throughout its performance, the Extended Dictionary app, will
actually
be using these shipped Dictionaries, as the basis for any new
dictionary created. We will look more into this at a later state.
All your existing native Dictionary files from your User Profile
folder, will be preserved untouched by the Extended Dictionary app.
Whenever you turn off - or uninstall the Extended Dictionary, your
Window-Eyes therefore will automatically return back to its original
functionality.
After installing,the app will automatically initiate itself. If the GW
AudioKit is installed and active on your system, you will hear an
audible notification, indicating the activation of the Extended
Dictionary. You will immediately have a Basic Voice-Specific
dictionary, created for your currently active speech synthesizer. In
other words, if you are running the Standard Eloquence Reed voice, the
app will immediately have created the Voice-Speicific Dictionary for
Eloquence, US English, Reed. It will further have copied all the
entries of your old general Exception dictionary file, into this
Voice-Specific Dictionary. This way, you should be able to start out,
exactly where you left off from the build-in dictionary of Window-Eyes
itself. It will further have added on a good amount of new entries,
from the shipping dictionary for this voice or language. And you will
right away, get in touch with the power of the Extended Dictionary.
Let's now say, you decided to switch to another voice. What about, for
instance, if you switched to the voice Mike, provided by Microsoft -
and which is actually a SAPI voice. Soon as you have activated the new
voice, the Extended Dictionary app, will immediately create a
Voice-Specific dictionary for Microsoft Mike. And, again, it will copy
the contents from your old general Exception dictionary file, into the
newly created Voice-Specific Dictionary. This way, you will have a
good set out, for any dictionaries, and you are ready to make the
specific tayloring for your specific voice.
There is no real limit to how many voices you could have installed on
your computer simultaneously. And, there should be few limitations as
to the dictionaries for each voice. If you are working with three
different voices, your Extended Dictionary will create three
Voice-Specific Dictionaries. Do you work with 15 different voices,
then you will have 15 Voice-Specific Dictionaries on your computer.
Since each voice will have its own directory on the computer, there is
little chance of any conflict between any of the dictionaries.
NOTES:
Switching from one voice to the other, the system will have to unload
the dictionary for the former voice, and then load the dictionary for
the new voice. This might take a second - particularly on slow systems
like netbooks - and meanwhile your voice could be performing some
speech. This speech, that would take place in between the unloading of
the old former dictionary and the loading of the new one, might be
performed without any modification. In given cases, you might also
experience drop-out, or a delay in the speech, through this switching
period. This is quite normal.
The Extended Dictionary DOES NOT directly interfere with Character,
Graphics, and Key Label Dictionaries of Window-Eyes. These
Dictionaries should be left turned ON, and unaltered. The Extended
Dictionary will mainly replace - and extend - the native EXCEPTION
Dictionary of Window-Eyes.
You are encouraged to make a backup of your current Window-Eyes' User
Profile, before attempting to install and run the Extended Dictionary
package.
REMARKS:
If you are currently using a voice that has not yet been used with the
extended Dictionary, you will be warned that an User Interface
Language (UI Language) for the current voice, has not yet been set.
You thereafter will be provided a list of currently available
languages. It is important that you find the language best
supported by
your active synthetic voice.
We will be dealing thoroughly with this in a later section of this
documentation.
To benefit from the Sound Clip feature of the Extended Dictionary, you
need to have the GWAudioKit app installed, and activated. The Extended
Dictionary will perform fine without, but you will not be able to hear
any sound clips. Having the GW AudioKit installed, will further ensure
you get notification sounds, whenever certain actions are performed by
the Extended Dictionary app.
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