[games_access] games_access Digest, Vol 165, Issue 6

Wed May 3 15:59:20 EDT 2017

Right on cue :)

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From: games_access <games_access-bounces at igda.org> on behalf of Chad Elstad <chad at smartmarbles.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 7:26:47 PM
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And almost like it was planned, Michelle's plugin was released today.
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/87935
Woo hoo!

On May 2, 2017 4:37 PM, Ian Hamilton <i_h at hotmail.com> wrote:

Michelle's isn't been released yet but it has made it into a game now, so you can have a play with the end result -

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crafting-kingdom/id1190611967?ls=1&mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MetalPop.CraftingKingdom

It's a huge undertaking. Those other plugins are just straight text to speech, send a text string and the system TTS engine speaks it out. Michelle's is essentially a complete rewrite of voiceover and talkback inside unity.

And from a dev's side it works in the same way as screen reader accessibility, once installed it's about making sure elements have the right attributes, rather than manually pushing out strings on focus.

Pretty big achievement, but still one that shouldn't be necessary, would be great to see the engines themselves supporting genuine screenreader accessibility.

Ian

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Hi Audazzle here ( Sel ),

We rolled our own speech module with limited recorded words... and after that our own web based TTS never thought to release as a plug-in too raw IMHO.

Then recently discovered a reasonable plug-in for Unity.  Since it took weeks to roll our own this seemed a bargain I've beed trying it on various games in the pipeline, it's cross platform.

Its called RTVoice by Crosstales. but not free about 60 dollars.

This one is cheaper

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/22315 but I didn't try it.

I believe the module you have in mind was developed by a developer in Florida ( Michelle ) who has been also blogging about the progress of it. Not sure if she has released yet?

Good luck.

Sel

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Audazzle are developing inclusive and accessible multi-player game experiences. We hope to impact social isolation. Our aim is to make video games, board games and social opportunities that meet diverse accessibility needs.

Nobody should get left out because of technology, all friends and family members should be able to play games together.

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What kind of functionality was it?

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All -
I cannot find the post, but does anyone recall who had created an asset for Unity for audio/hearing accessibility? Was it Audazzle? or a link from Audazzle's site? I am struggling to find it.
I recall MegapopGames has an accessibility plugin in the works, but I don't think that was it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again,
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I believe it was hooks you could add in to your code in Unity to add a
wide variety of audio accessibility, such as
speech-to-text/text-to-speech, etc.

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 What kind of functionality was it?

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 All - I cannot find the post, but does anyone recall who had created
an asset for Unity for audio/hearing accessibility? Was it Audazzle?
or a link from Audazzle's site? I am struggling to find it.
 I recall MegapopGames has an accessibility plugin in the works, but I
don't think that was it.
 Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 Thanks again,
 -Chad

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