[gui-talk] windows 7 loss of speech

[Jude DaShiell]

If not written messages then at least a couple different windows sounds. 
 Maybe incoming sms response for speech going away and outgoing sms for 
when speech is coming back and those would be on the iphone.  That way 
at least I wouldn't be trying to key things when the speech just goes 
away and wouldn't miss system responses that might cause me to make more 
informed decisions as to what to do and avoid doing in certain 
situations.

On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Doug Lee wrote:

> Interesting concept there, but unless I'm missing something big, that
> would produce enough announcements to be more annoying than short-term
> speech delays now are. I don't know if Windows implements real-time
> process scheduling like, for example, FreeBSD does; but even without
> that, plenty of cases exist where speech is not and should not be the
> top priority of the CPU. An example is an application in charge of
> monitoring real-time events, like network packet arrival, USB
> sensor/probe data input, and even keyboard input.
> 
> Process scheduling is surely one of the trickier businesses of an
> operating system. I happen to like the experiences I've had on various
> Unix-style operating systems with regard to this, but to be fair, my
> speech when using those, up until MacOS at least, has always come from
> a separate computer, which means my experiences say nothing of the
> problem you're trying to solve.
> 
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 07:37:17AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Windows users need two additional messages to be displayed and spoken if 
> speech is in use.  First a process priority message that gets spoken when 
> another process with higher priority than speech is about to take over.  
> Then a process restored message which would display when the higher 
> priority process is finished with the system and speech returns.  This 
> would probably take less code than fixing the underlying lack of true 
> pre-emptive multitasking problem, but my bet is Microsoft doesn't put 
> either fix in.
> 
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