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From: mattioli@took.dec.com (John R. Mattioli)
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Subject: Re: DeskView with speech?
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Date: 3 Jul 90 20:38:00 GMT
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In article <12473@bunker.UUCP>, Gary Campbell writes:
> 
>Has anyone been successful with getting DeskView, or any other
>similar program to work with speech?  I played around with DeskView
>last summer for an evening and got less than acceptable results.  I
>was able to get a program to run in a window set up for a program
>doing direct screen access, but the speech would sometimes mumble
>something periodically without any provocation.  Also, when in the
>DeskView menus the cursor locater information was totally strange,
>like row 64, column 205, and the speech control keys worked
>strangely, i.e.  doing two consecutive "say current line"s would
>yield different results.  This was done with Artic Vision 2.1 (or
>whatever the current version is).
> 

I haven't actually used desqview with speech or anything else, but
I want to use it with a braillex some day soon so I have an
interest in this.

First of all, it doesn't hurt to contact Quarterdeck (the makers of
desqview) and ask them for some information.  They may not be able
to help you (you've got a rather specific question) but then again
they might.

Which desqview are you running?  If it's not desqview 386, I'd
suggest running your speech software in each partition.  There's a
big difference between programming in a single process world (like
that of dos) and programming in a multiprocess world (like that of
desqview).  If it's desqview 386 I almost think you'd absolutely
have to run your speech software in each partition.  The 386
virtual mode is a very interesting feature of the chip and, from
what I've read, can allow multiple dos programs to run without any
of them knowing about each other.  Unfortunately, having multiple
programs accessing the speech hardware at the same time could be
bad so you might want to be absolutely sure that programs in the
background are inactive and are only activated when you bring them
into the foreground.

I strongly suggest you test out the software carasel before you buy
it.  It could easily have the same problems as desqview.

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