[BlueOnyx:04683] Re: SAPI Support in BO

[John Sikes]

On May 29, 2010, at 11:49 PM, Michael Stauber wrote:

> Hi John,
>
>> 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 may not be understanding the scope of the problem entirely, so let  
> me ask
> this first:
>
> The client opens up his browser, points it to a CMS hosted on your  
> server. On
> that page is an input form into which one usually would type the  
> text of the
> webpage, right?
>
> But instead of typing he uses "Select & Say" (whatever that is), which
> translates his spokend words into text that appears in the text  
> input field on
> the webpage. As far as I understand this works so far, but not the  
> correcting
> function?
>
> If I understood the problem correctly, then it is safe to say that  
> this is not
> a BlueOnyx issue. I would even doubt that it may be a problem with  
> said CMS.
> The server, PHP or even the CMS doesn't need to be SAPI compliant  
> for this to
> work. In fact nothing on the server needs to be SAPI compliant for  
> this. It's
> rather a problem with the speech to text software which apparently  
> is unable
> to correct stuff in said input textbox on that web form.
>
>> 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."
>
> Don't get me wrong, John: I'm not making fun of you here, but I  
> can't stop
> laughing about this quote. It's like telling the British that they  
> have to
> adapt the Euro in order to remain competitive. ;o)
>
> /me mubles: "slash sbin slash shutdown minus h now ... Aaah, wrong  
> window!
> Nooo!"
>
> Sorry, but I can't see how BlueOnyx would benefit from a SAPI  
> interface so
> that you can voice communicate with it in order for it to do  
> anything. Sure:
> We're all yelling at our servers sometime, but it ain't really  
> helping. :o)
>
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> With best regards
>
> Michael Stauber
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Thanks for the quick replies as always Michael and Stephanie.

As it turns out the problem is related not to the application on the  
BO server but to the local browser.  IE is SAPI compatible but Firefox  
is not.  This has to be the strangest trouble log I have received  
since I started hosting in 2004.  The customer was so irate with me.   
I very much appreciate the responses (I can't stop chuckling about it  
looking back on the whole thing).  For the life of me I couldn't find  
the relationship to this standard and a web application.

Stephaine, my customer is using TinyMCE but it is still just a HTML  
textarea.  The application works fine with IE 8 on Windows 7, but not  
Firefox.  I tested it in Firefox and that is also what the customer  
was using when he contacted Dragon.  Also thanks for the extra links.   
I found a couple of them to be interesting reading in that PHP could  
be compiled to include text to speech.

So now when you yell at your server....it might be able to yell back  
at you.

Thanks.

John

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