[BlueOnyx:04682] Re: SAPI Support in BO

[Stephanie Sullivan]

Wow. Is this ever typical of the "for charge only" support that nuance (not
to be confused with the fondly remembered Brian's nuonce) is reputed to
provide for its products like dragon and paperport (check amazon reviews for
their products and you'll see lots of other similar opinions). I think I can
safely say it has NOTHING to do with the web server. Period.

 

SAPI only matters for local applications - like the web browser. Have they
tried another web browser with dragon to see if it magically works? It's
been a while since I used dragon, but then support was only in certain
specific applications that supported sapi. In those that did not fully
support it, only entry or deletion were enabled in most cases. But it's been
a while.

 

Here is their general sapi support document for developers:

http://download.scansoft.com/NaturallySpeaking/wp_WinAppsCompat_109v2.pdf

 

The next document is their HTML coding guide:

http://download.scansoft.com/NaturallySpeaking/wp_DNS_HTML_109v2.pdf

 

The ONLY web site reason I could thing this might not work with Dragon would
be ajax/javascript being used to process each character of the field as it's
typed, changing it (even to the same thing) out from under Dragon. An
example of this would be the rich editing javascript editing applications
which are used in wordpress and a number of CMS's which use some fancy DOM
coding to rewrite the page source to turn a textarea into a iframe with
word-like editing capability (nice bold, italics, etc. buttons). The HTML
coding guide makes it clear this is treated as a "nonstandard window".

 

If it's a plain-jane text area dragon should work just fine. If it's fancy
wysiwyg text field, not so much. 

 

FYI - I'm pretty darn sure IIS (web browser on windows) doesn't have sapi
integration. It does not do the correction to the text field, the web
browser does.

 

                Thanks,

                                -Stephanie

 

From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it] On
Behalf Of John Sikes
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 11:53 PM
To: blueonyx at blueonyx.it
Subject: [BlueOnyx:04680] SAPI Support in BO

 

Off the wall question.  

I have a customer that created a PHP website that uses a text area and he
uses Dragon Dictate to populate that field.  This works except for the
ability to use the programs correction functions.  

 

This relies on something called Select & Say.  He posted a question to one
of the Dragon help lists and was told "Unfortunately, the developers who
designed your HTML application chose to ignore standard SAPI (Microsoft
speech application program interface) coding, which unfortunately is a
fairly common practice."  He is looking to me for advise, but I unfamiliar
with this standard.  

 

I researched SAPI but appears to be for local applications, not web apps.  I
see that there are SAPI modules available for PHP but has anyone tried them
in BO? 

 

Anyone have any experience with making fully "select and say" compatible web
applications on BO, or have any suggestions I can pass to my customer?  

 

Dragon support also told him "Contact the developers to see if they are
receptive to this recommendation because eventually every application will
need to be SAPI compliant in order to be competitive."  He is the developer,
but they are pointing that since this is not a windows box...... that is
what is causing his problems and he should switch to a Windows provider.
Yuck

 

Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

John

 

 


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