[games_access] games_access Digest, Vol 165, Issue 6

Fri May 5 02:49:18 EDT 2017

Awesome - will show my students today at a mobile app dev course where we use Unity
Best,
Thomas


> 3May 2017 kl. 20:26 skrev Chad Elstad <chad at smartmarbles.com>:
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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!
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> 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 -
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> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crafting-kingdom/id1190611967?ls=1&mt=8
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> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MetalPop.CraftingKingdom
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> 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.
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> 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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> From: games_access <games_access-bounces at igda.org> on behalf of Selwyn Lloyd <selwyn at audazzle.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 2, 2017 10:24:53 PM
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> Subject: Re: [games_access] games_access Digest, Vol 165, Issue 6
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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. 
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> 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.
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> Its called RTVoice by Crosstales. but not free about 60 dollars. 
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> This one is cheaper 
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> https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/22315 <https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/22315> but I didn't try it.
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> 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? 
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> Good luck. 
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> Sel
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> Mobile: 07979240124
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> Nobody should get left out because of technology, all friends and family members should be able to play games together.
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>    1. Re: Audio Asset for Unity? (Ian Hamilton)
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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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>  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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