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speech-dispatcher java bindings
From: |
Hynek Hanke |
Subject: |
speech-dispatcher java bindings |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:42:36 +0200 |
Halim Sahin:
> Don't waste your time with selfvoicing applications.
>
There is at least three reasons for using speech:
1) for accessibility
2) for reading texts and ebooks
3) for notifications, events, in games, learning tools etc.
While for accessibility, it is definitely prefered to just avoid bariers
and let the accessibility infrastructure do the voicing work,
there might be different ways to accomplish (2) and (3) which
are useful for all users independently of whether they are visually
handicaped or not. From the non-accessibility perspective
of applications, using speech is not much different from using
sound in general.
I agree that for the purpose of accessibility, self-voicing should
always be a carefully considered special case.
With regards,
Hynek