sak (Speaker Assistive Kit) is here !

[Fred vS]

Hello. 

I am very happy to announce the birth of sak for fpc.

sak is the Speecher Assistive Kit who transforms your applications into multi language speaking assisted applications.
Easy and independent, you do not have to change anything in your original code.
You do not need external libraries like at-spi, sapi, nor install anything in your system, etc...

All is included in the kit (+- 1 mega).
Of course the kit can be shared with other applications.

How it works ?

Only call SAKloadlib when you want and your application becomes assistived with no other code added.
Call  SAKunloadlib to unload it at runtime too.

sak recognizes aswell your new forms created at run time.

sak uses the espeak and portaudio libraries (espeak Windows code adapted to use portaudio with agreement of the author).

Here all sources, examples, libraries and binaries demos :
http://fredvs.github.io/sak/

Here compiled binaries demos of sak with LCL GTK2(32/64), LCL Qt(32/64), LCL Win32, fpGUI Linux(32/64) and fpGUI win32 widgetsets.
https://sites.google.com/site/fiensprototyping/sk_bin_demos.zip

PS : It is the first release, of course all the existing components are not yet "assistived".

Have fun.

[Fred vS]

Hello. 
The wiki is there :
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/sak

[exdatis]

Thank you very much!
Regards

[el-mono]

Is excellent man. Thanks very much

 

[Graeme]

Nice work!

[laggyluk]

I tried the demo  on windows and it gives me "The program can’t start because MSVCR110.dll is missing from your computer." when clicking 'load sak'

[BigChimp]

@LaggyLuk: this indicates sak needs the correct Microsoft Visual C++ runtime package installed. You can get it from Microsoft.

If Fred is distributing some dlls that require this, he could include the required msvcrt installer and call it (it has a quiet mode IIRC).

[Fred vS]

"The program can’t start because MSVCR110.dll is missing from your computer."

What version of Windows do you use ?
I have try with XP and Windows 7 without problems...

Have you try the Windows binaries demos included ?

[Fred vS]

@ BigChimp :

If Fred is distributing some dlls that require this, he could include the required msvcrt installer and call it (it has a quiet mode IIRC).

With pleasure but what other dll must be installed, i do not understand and how to know what other dll are needed ? ...

[BigChimp]

If you distribute a dll that requires the msvcrt runtime, please distribute the msvcrt installer as well.

Apparently some dll that sak uses requires msvcrt110 -
See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/abx4dbyh%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

If you are not distributing dll files but asking people to install/download dlls, you could add a note to your installation instructions mentioning the msvcrt requirement.

[Fred vS]

If you distribute a dll that requires the msvcrt runtime, please distribute the msvcrt installer as well.

OK, i gonna add the msvcrt installer ( but i think that, usually, it is installed by default on all Windows system...)

Many thanks for the links and have nice holidays...

[Fred vS]

Microsoft Visual C++ runtime package installed

Pfffff, this is why i hate to have to deal with MS Visual Studio.

But i have no choice, impossible to compile eSpeak with MinGW... 

[taazz]

well to be honest there is no difference most of the mingw compiled dlls required their own dlls as well for example the mingw QT libraries require the mingwm10.dll and the libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll, nothing changes but the delivery medium in which case MS made sure that you deliver all the required dlls along side the MSVCR110.dll required or not by your application/library.

[Fred vS]

@ Taazz : thanks for explain.
 

in which case MS made sure that you deliver all the required dlls along side the MSVCR110.dll required or not by your application/library.

Hum, so how to know what other dll are needed...?
Should i un-install MS Visual Studio and try to load the demos and see what dll are missing ? But not sure that, with un-install MS Visual Studio, all the installed dll will be deleted...

[taazz]

There was a tool called depends that came with all microsoft IDEs last time I used it was on vb6 days. I think they still have it in there some where. You can use it to open the dll with that and it will show all dependencies aka the dlls it links too. You can use it on all the windows dlls regardless of what compiler made them. In case that they have stopped including it, which I find doubtful, here is a similar free utility. http://dependencywalker.com/