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From: Jan.Parker@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Jan Parker)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Vocal-Eyes quick review
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Date: 19 Sep 90 02:08:54 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Hi Gary,
 
       What you say about windows would be nice, but as I understand 
it, windows doesn't directly allow external programs to hook in unless 
they have been compiled under windows.  There may be a way around 
this since a lot of DOS users run windows under DOS it may sound silly 
but a lot of people don't want to mess with their boot structure, 
what could be done in this scenario would be a keyboard/I-O trapper, 
as a device driver under DOS before windows.
 
       The other possibility that hits me right now would be a variation 
on what is called O.C.R. software.  This software was designed for 
scanners to be able to generate charactor codes from a variety of 
fonts.  The problem with O.C.R.'s is a vast amount of memry that they 
eat.  Within windows "or even DOS itself" you have a very limited 
and exact charactor set.  It might be possible to rebuild an O.C.R. 
program to scan the screen for the charactor set, and tie into the 
synthesizer that way.
 
       On silly question:  I am a sighted person with very little 
exposure to synthesizers except for some shareware stuff like may 
Max Headroom and Talk.  Is there a standard way to interface with 
the synthesizers, or is there somewhere that I could get more information 
on attatching to synthesizers that are out there?
 
       We're working on our own "Talking" software but that will take 
a while to develop.  In the mean time I was wondering if there were 
ways that we could tie our softwware directly to synthesizers.
 
                                Rich and Jan Parker
                                Thunderhead Software

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