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From: covici@well.sf.ca.us (John Covici)
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Subject: Re: DeskView with speech?
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Date: 23 Jul 90 20:07:01 GMT
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In article <12610@bunker.UUCP> mattioli@took.dec.com (John R. Mattioli) writes:
>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.  

Well, I have had problems with DESQview because although if you 
loaded the speech in each partition it would work, you can't load 
the speech both before DESQview to get the menues and after 
DESQview to have it work properly in each partition.

I have however found a much more well-behaved program called
Omniview, by Sunnyhill software and the folks were nice enough 
to add an option that would give you BIOS output  for a task in
the foreground.

It's not perfect, mostly because the speech software gets very confused 
sometimes, but its much better than not having such facilities.

The main problem is that when the speech software reads the screen
it stops all other tasks.  Also, hardware screen virtualization
confuses the speech software and review functions don't work.
Therefore, any background task which writes directly to the screen
while you are in foreground, will bleed through to the foreground
screen.

Call 800 3670651 and ask for V4.2 or V4.14 if they'll give you that.

I am using Artic vision; I don't know if others would work better in this 
environment.  One more thing, the pass key doesn't work at all; we have no 
idea why.

         John