[Wine] Re: Naturally speaking under wine help needed

Addys wineforum-user at winehq.org
Sun May 31 07:50:32 CDT 2009


Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> Austin English wrote:
> 
> > You may be able to use AutoHotKey to cut and paste for you more
> > automatically (http://www.autohotkey.com/).
> > 
> 
> I don't believe a hotkey will work in this application.  It appears it would 
> only work in the wine environment and not have any effect on the linux side. The 
> timeline and contexts shifts outlined below might make this clearer.
> 
> [Linux]
> Switch to application thunderbird
> Bring up the message composer
> click on the compose window
> 
> [wine]
> switch to first notepad
> Dictate message
> copy the buffer
> 
> [Linux]
> switch to Thunderbird
> click on compose window
> paste buffer into compose window
> 
> [wine]
> Switch to first notepad
> dictate more text
> 
> [wine]
> start second notepad
> switch to second notepad
> dictate more text
> copy the buffer
> 
> [Linux]
> Switch to instant messenger
> select message window
> paste buffer
> 
> [wine]
> switch to first notepad
> copy buffer
> 
> [Linux]
> switch to Thunderbird compose
> select message window
> paste buffer
> 
> -------------------------
> 
> In order to make this work, I need to know the context of the active application 
> at the time dictation starts. Then during the dictation time, switch context to 
> the editor window associated with the application, injected text into the editor 
> if it's plain dictation other wise take the output from a grammar activator 
> program and stuff it in the X11 keystroke stream. When dictation finishes, 
> return focus to the formerly active application.
> 
> In thinking about what would be the minimum acceptable setup, a simple ping-pong 
> between an active application and an editor should be okay about 80% of the time 
> if something like natlink+python was available.  Activating adding and 
> terminating editing by explicit commands shouldn't be too onerous as that's what 
> we use today with the current dictation box capability.
> 
> Shifting the topic slightly,  natlink is a wrapper around a com interface to 
> NaturallySpeaking. How difficult would it be to make that something that can 
> cross the wine/ linux boundary?


Not an ideal solution, but have you tried running Windows Thunderbird under wine? Firefox works pretty well, I guess Thunderbird can't be that bad.







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