Carol, the latest version of Skype is 4.2 and there
are
both Jaws and window-eyes scripts available. However,
there is a program called skypetalking which you can
install which knocks spots off both scripts. I will
post the
information below. If you do install this program, you
will have to allow it to use skype.
Dear friends,
Proud to release exciting new version 0.8 of
SkypeTalking. This is the fourth release, and contains
lots of new features and
some bug fixes and improvements as well.
Comparing to first release from February (SkypeTalking
0.5), this is a big step forward!
Some highlights of this new release are chat
monitoring,
easy way for changing a mood text on the fly, improved
support for file transfers, better reporting of call
duration, contacts manager and SMS support. I would
like to thank
again to all of the contributors, as well as our
second developer Gianluca who has also
made a lot of work on V0.8. Now regarding the
translations. The following translations still have
to be updated. They will
unfortunately be outdated in 0.8.
These are as follows: czech, spanish, japanese,
polish,
portuguese and chinese. All others are updated,
including the documentation. I am just unsure for
russian and ukranian readme but
whatsnew is translated. We also simplified the
installer, and jfwapi.dll is now automatically
registered, so users
running 64-bit JAWS should no longer have problems
with
SkypeTalking not detecting JAWS. SkypeTalking can now
also be launched with Alt+Ctrl+Shift+T hot key,
which I didn't mentione in whatsnew, so this will be
updated for the next version under 0.8 section.
Everyone here on SkypeTalking
mailing list was able to follow how much work we've
made on this new version, and thus every feedback is
welcome. We fixed some bugs, and some may be still
present. The one problem that we are aware of is
slower performance with some commands e.g. slow
loading of contacts
manager, slow reactions with end call command
(alt+ctrl+shift+end) etc. Another bug is where
SkypeTalking will say New SMS when that's in fact a
new
file transfer. I also
experienced some interesting problems where some
events
are not spoken sometimes for some reason, so I ask
myself, if they are spoken in general,
then why they are sometimes ignored for no reason,
even
if ignoring is off. I hope that we will be able to
address these bugs, but in general the program should
work quite well. Here comes the complete list of new
features copied from
what's new document as well as the download link for
both portable and installer versions of SkypeTalking
0.8.
New: Added the ability to monitor active chats, in
other
words, opened chat windows. Use keystrokes
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Function keys F1 through F10 to set
monitor on one of the last 10 active chats (press
twice
to bring focus to that chat window). You can then use
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Numbers for reading last 10 messages in
currently monitored chat. Pressing Alt+Ctrl+Shift+C
will announce currently
monitored chat, and pressing it twice will bring
focus to that chat window. New: Added the ability to
read and/or change your Skype
mood text. Pressing Alt+Ctrl+Shift+M will speak your
current mood text, and pressing it twice will open a
dialog box that lets you change your mood text.
New: Alt+Ctrl+Shift+O command reports the current user
online status, and when pressed twice, will report the
user's current balance on a Skype credit.
New: Added command for speaking the current call
duration, Alt+Ctrl+Shift+D. New: Added contacts
Manager, accessed with Alt+Ctrl+Shift+F11, which is
the
alternative to Skype contact list. It will display
your contacts in a multi-select list box allowing you
to select them with a spacebar and perform various
actions on them such as Call, Chat or View Profile. It
will also display the Last Seen information for
offline
contacts, which is inaccessible with some Skype
versions and to some screen readers such as NVDA. The
View Profile action will open a profile viewer that
will allow you to review the selected contact's
details
by using the Tab and Shift+Tab and the arrow keys. The
Call and Chat actions are self-describing. Pressing
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+F11 twice will focus the original
Skype contact list. If multiple
contacts are selected, then you will have options for
creating a conference or a multi-chat. New: Added
commands for answering and ending a call,
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Home and Alt+Ctrl+Shift+End (not on the
NumPad). Pressing Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Home during a call
will toggle between hold and resume for the current
call. Pressing Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Home twice
quickly will answer and join the incoming call to a
conference. Pressing
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+End twice quickly will toggle
microphone
mute or unmute. New: Added support for sending SMS
with
SkypeTalking. The command Alt+Ctrl+Shift+S will now
open an SMS wizard which will allow you to send SMS
to any phone number. There are
two dialogs, one for the phone number and the another
one for the message text. When entering a number, use
semicolons to separate multiple phone numbers and also
include your country code. If everything is correct,
press Enter to continue. Next, enter your SMS text,
then press Enter or tab to Send button to send a
message, or press Escape or Cancel Button to cancel
sending. While composing a message, you can press F2
to
check out your current SMS count, how many characters
you have left, and also the current SMS price. A
Critical Stop sound will play in case when there are 0
characters left in a message text. New: Added a new
option to settings dialog to
automatically quit Skype when exiting SkypeTalking.
It's set to On by default.
New: Added a new option to settings dialog, "Confirm
when exiting SkypeTalking". It's turned on by
default, so
now when exiting SkypeTalking, you should also
confirm that you
want to exit. If it's turned off, SkypeTalking will
behave like
in previous versions, which means that it will exit
immediately. This option was added to prevent users
from exiting program by accident. New: Added the
ability to customize SkypeTalking
keyboard shortcuts, though currently you have to use
INI file
for this. The Key Bindings tab in the Settings dialog
is scheduled
for the next release.
If the keyboard assignment in SkypeTalking.INI is
incorrect, than the default assignment will be used,
but user will also be warned about an invalid
assignment. You can
modify all keystrokes under the [shortcuts] section.
Please use this carefully, and also restart
SkypeTalking
if the changes didn't take affect immediately.
New: Added languages: Danish and French.
Changed: Read last chat message command changed from
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+M to Alt+Ctrl+Shift+R. Also when
pressed
twice, will move the
focus and monitor to that chat.
Changed: Exit SkypeTalking command changed from
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+F4 to Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Q (for Quit).
Changed: The Settings Dialog command changed from
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+S to Alt+Ctrl+Shift+P (for
Preferences).
Changed: Removed taskbar icon. You can now use
associated SkypeTalking commands instead of the
right-click menu. Changed: API wrapper version is now
spoken when pressing Alt+Ctrl+Shift+V twice, since
this information is not
useful for the end users.
Improved: call duration is now reported in hours,
minutes and seconds. Improved: Added file transfer
speed and
data transferred information to File Transfer Status
command (Alt+Ctrl+Shift+F). Improved: SkypeTalking
will
no longer allow multiple instances running at the
same time, and it will
reproduce a Ding sound if the user tries launching
another instance of SkypeTalking by accident while
it's
in memory. Improved: If the critical error happens
while loading SkypeTalking, an error tone will be
played from your PC speaker. Please inform the
developers about this as
soon as it happens. Bugfix: SkypeTalking will no
longer ignore contacts that
haven't set their full names, and it'll speak their
Skype Id's instead. Thus, you will no longer hear
something like "Skype: is online". Bugfix: When
opening settings
dialog, the focus is now properly set to Language
Combo Box.
Bugfix: In settings dialog, the Ok and Cancel buttons
are no longer bypassed when navigating with Shift+Tab.
Download links:
SkypeTalking 0.8 installation program:
http://skypetalking.googlecode.com/files/SkypeTalking_0.8_Setup.exe
SkypeTalking 0.8 portable version:
http://skypetalking.googlecode.com/files/SkypeTalking_0.8_portable.7z
Feel free to forward this email to other mailing
lists,
including SkypeEnglish, NVDA etc.
Also join me on the inovations show on The Global
Voice
radio where I will be presenting SkypeTalking to the
listeners soon. Greetings from Croatia/Zagreb,
Hrvoje Katic - SkypeTalking president
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