[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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