I sent this about an hour ago an never received it. So here it is again.
An easy way to do this is to set your Trippletalk as your backup
synthesizer. And when it's plugged in just hold down the left Shift key
while booting up or loading Window-Eyes. Doing so makes it use the
backup synth.
Hth,
Tom
On 7/29/2013 11:39 AM, Stephen Clower wrote:
> Mike,
>
> To my knowledge, there isn't a reliable way to tell if a hardware
> synthesizer is actually connected to your PC. For instance, I could tell
> my copy of Window-Eyes to start speaking through a Trippletalk, and it
> will happily do its best... but as I have no such device the end result
> would be no speech whatsoever, though Window-Eyes would otherwise
> continue running.
>
> If you find yourself needing to flip through two or more specific
> devices or voices frequently, give the Voice Rotor app (included with
> Window-Eyes 7.5 and up) a try. While not as automatic as you envision,
> it should otherwise fit the bill.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
>
>
> On 7/29/2013 11:35 AM, BX wrote:
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> It is interesting you would say this and when reading the Boo
>> compiler and the ability to make shared objects, it allows you to make
>> dialogs and windows forms fairly easy.
>>
>> One could probably make up each dialog and such as a duplicate of
>> what WE uses and have that placed in as a shared object for everyone
>> to use.
>>
>> It is interesting in the 2 examples given under the Homer apps
>> that short examples are given there.
>>
>> so, using Boo there seems to many possibilities. Once I get
>> through copying down the C++ manual, 400 pages to go, I will get into
>> it. (Out of 1250)
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 8:26 AM
>> Subject: Script that selects synthesizer when booting upIf WE8.2 can
>> already do this, please let me know. If not, I am hoping that someone
>> can script this as I, and probably others, might find something like
>> this useful.
>>
>>
>>
>> Let me explain what I am attempting to do. On a laptop, I have it
set to
>> use eloquence as the default on bootup. I also, more often than not,
>> have
>> a trippletalk usb synthesizer connected to the pc.
>> I make the switch to the TripleTalk either using a .bat file or via the
>> synthesizer dialogue in the devices options of the WE8.2 settings.
>> What would be nice is a script detecting whether or not the tripleTalk
>> usb
>> was connected and, if it found it, used that for speech and, if not
>> there,
>> went to eloquence.
>>
>> As I said before, if WE can already do this, I don't want someone to
>> re-invent the wheel.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies.
>> St. Augustine
>>
>
