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André Polykanine
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André Polykanine

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André Polykanine

menelion@dragonscave.space
A married and happy geek living in Strasbourg, France. #Backend software engineer, #accessibility specialist.
My main programming languages are #PHP and #CSharp.
Pro-European centrist. Technical progress must not be stoppable.
#AI is our assistant, not our replacement nor our enemy.
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André Polykanine
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André Polykanine

5 days ago • •


Filling out #Microsoft #Windows #Narrator survey. Does Narrator even support #SAPI5? Support claims it does, but why my esoteric voices are not there in the list then?.. #Accessibility #ScreenReader
#Accessibility #Windows #screenreader #microsoft #narrator #sapi5
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in reply to André Polykanine • 5 days ago • •
because these voices are not 64-bit capable. these should be 64-bit capable.
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in reply to Zvonimir Stanecic • 5 days ago • •
@asael I didn't think about it...
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in reply to André Polykanine • 5 days ago • •
So, for example, Narrator will support RHVoice, because it is a 64-bit capable synthesizer. Anothing which ships 32-bit dlls will never work. Microsoft abandons x86 altogether on the x64 platform.
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in reply to André Polykanine • 5 days ago • •
@dhamlinmusic Probably only supports X64 SAPI5 or only the SAPI5 Microsoft voices.
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in reply to Devin Prater :blind: • 5 days ago • •
@pixelate @dhamlinmusic Oooh... Okay.
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