MUSHclient: for an accessible, stable and powerful MUDding experience

3. Window Eyes: primary speech Plugin4. SAPI 5: primary speech Plugin5. Further MUSHclient Resources

SAPI5 is the name used to apply to any supported speech synthesizer you have installed on your computer. Voices from ScanSoft, NeoSpeech, and many others are “SAPI5 Compatible”, meaning they will work with this plugin.

Note that this Plugin isn’t recommended because it doesn’t work with a particular screen reader. you’ll have no way to re-read things that have been sent to the MUD, and using SAPI is quite a slow way of accessing the MUD in the first place. if you’re using an unsupported screen reader, you may want to investigate the possibility of scripting your reader rather than using a MUSHclient plugin. If your screen reader is able to be scripted externally and you have documentation, I will happily write a MUSHclient plugin for you if I can - the more supported screen readers I can provide plugins for the better. If you’re technically savvy and have beet me to it, please, comment with your e-mail address or website so others can benefit from your work.

With all that said, if you’re brave (or desperate), you can Download the SAPI primary-speech Plugin here.

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One Response to “MUSHclient: for an accessible, stable and powerful MUDding experience”

  1. alex Says:
    May 7th, 2010 at 8:05 pm

    in mush client if you set a trigger for * and put the output to tts_stop /n then you can have a VERY functional reader for MUDS without using a screenreader like jaws or even nvda…however because you will sometimes miss a tell from friends etc. while playing like this, it is important to have a channel history (standard) so you can replay messages sent by friends.etc.

    So to clarify what I am saying is that the TTS_sapi plugin works fine alone, ive been playing mushs like this for awhile now…but you need that trigger to make the output non-spammy. Make sure you set the output to command though and NOT world…or the trigger will crash the client with spammed commands. Also only the first 3 checkboxes should be checked, leave the others all blank.

    I am currently (after completing the simple * trigger) in the process of making/discovering a trigger than now eliminates all the silly characters you dont need read like brackets and vertical lines…please look forward to these fully functional mush 4.51 clients with TTS plugins for full functionality MUDS without the use of ANY screenreader (and still plays less spammy than them anyways)…also now working with Dragon to get muds into the abilities of those who cannot type for various reasons.

    Have a good One!!!

    PS the trigger doesnt work yet on any input from the num-pad, but this also will be solved soon!

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