Re: [Emacs-vr-mode-users] I'm interested in Emacs-vr-mode

[Tim H. <tim...@gm...>]

Sorry, I forgot to post this to the list. Everyone else, here is the rest of
this thread

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From: Tim Harper <tim...@gm...>
Date: Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Emacs-vr-mode-users] I'm interested in Emacs-vr-mode
To: Patrik Jonsson <gri...@us...>


Hi, Patrick


On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Patrik Jonsson
<gri...@us...> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> I thought DNS doesn't run on macs? Have they finally ported it? If so,
> that's cool, but unfortunately VR mode won't work because it's a
> windows executable that communicates using the Windows COM API.

I am running Windows under  Parallels Desktop 5. so, no, they have not
finally ported it :-) I have tried messing around with Mac speak, but
it is quite inferior to Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

>
> If you are running Win under bootcamp or in a VM, it should work for
> you. I say "pretty sure" because I've heard some noise that Scansoft
> says that in recent versions of DNS it is "unauthorized" to use
> plugins in the standard version. I don't know whether that means
> they've blocked it or that it will work and you're just not supposed
> to do it. (The voicecode yahoo group should have discussions about
> this, and whether you think such a license limitation is valid is up
> to you to decide.)
>
> The thing to do is just try. Let me know how it goes.
>

I am currently using version 10 of DNS.  I followed the instructions,
and ran the "dnsdk" executable as it is stated to. After I ran it, it
said it was preparing to install, and then it just quit. I'm not sure
if it installed anything or not, do you usually have to click a couple
of buttons to install it? Anyways, I then tried to open up the vr.exe
file, and got an error message: "VR space Failure"
"IDgnEngineControl::Register() failed (0x80040206)" followed by
"Error", "NatSpeak initialization failed".

Are you perhaps aware of another SDK file to install? Perhaps the one
provided on Source Forge is not compatible with my version of Dragon
NaturallySpeaking.

 Thank you so much for your assistance! (Or at least, responding :-))

Tim