[python-win32] com proxy

[Mye Nyme]

On 5/10/2013 11:26 AM, Vernon D. Cole wrote:
> Eric:
>   Interesting timing. I assume you and your fellow "bunch of crips" 
> are motion impaired.  I happen to be in Africa just now working on the 
> polio vaccination effort in an attempt to reduce additions to your 
> group.  My mother-in-law (a polio victim) was quadriplegic and used 
> breathing assistance, and ran a telephone answering service for 17 
> years. Her voice was her world. I wish she had something as nice as a 
> computer that could understand speech.

polio is tough. It has vanished from us in the first world so completely 
we don't think about it being a problem elsewhere. It may still be 
possible for speech recognition to work for her but it would require 
some significant annotationto handle the rest of the accessibility 
problems found in the rest of NaturallySpeaking, talk to me off list and 
I will see if I can find help

FYI, nuance is just as hostile to the disabled as almost every other 
software company. They just happen to advertise a side effect of 
NaturallySpeaking as accessibility.

>   Now to the subject... As we speak I am frantically crunching on a 
> Python proxy to bridge a COM link to the Linux environment.
>    The specific COM link I am fighting with (and for) is the COM 
> interface to the ADO database engine.  I am attempting to build a 
> remote ADO module which talks to a Windows host which performs the COM 
> calls to talk to a database server. I am getting pretty close -- close 
> enough that the django test routine running on Ubuntu can create and 
> load a database and start running tests against it -- before it runs 
> into some kind of timeout or thread exhaustion error. I am trying to 
> use Pyro4 as the network communication layer.
>   Is this something you can use?  Not yet, but it may be a starting 
> point.  Stay in touch, please..
if you look on source Forge for natlink,    like, here 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/natlink/ you'll see what we are doing.  
I'm hoping your attempts can be generalized to serve both of our needs. 
I will put this on the queue of things I need to pay attention to.

As for the source of our cripple nature, most of us were programmers. A 
few are arthritic or accident injury types. I'm working on a new method 
of programming using speech recognition. The symbol translation stuff is 
working pretty good but I really need some form of templating system to 
help me build code from complex objects. For example, the time module. 
How would you speak the time module in a high-level way and given the 
right assumptions, generate the right code. The second would be how you 
reverse the process so that you can edit the English text to fix an 
error or change logic and then generate code again.

Interesting stuff

> --
> Vernon Cole
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Mye Nyme <ynotlayabout at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ynotlayabout at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     hopefully, someone here can either help or point me in the right
>     direction.
>
>     As some of you know, I used speech recognition in order to be able
>     to work with computers. I'm looking for a way to direct the action
>     of speech recognition onto a Linux machine. There are two
>     components speech and commands. The way many of us create commands
>     is via a NaturallySpeaking Python link. That link is created by a
>     com interface. The first step in making action show up in a Linux
>     environment is to move this NaturallySpeaking Python link to the
>     Linux side. In order to do this, I would need a proxy to bridge
>     the COM interface to the Linux environment.
>
>     one) does that kind of bridge exists?
>     Two) if not, is it possible to build it?
>     3) (and you knew this was coming) feel like helping a bunch of crips?
>     3a)  there are some political benefits nfpc.
>
>      I'm thinking about operating in a Windows host Linux virtual
>     machine environment. Not over any great extent of network. I
>     choose the window hosts because that way we get the best
>     performance out of speech recognition and if it's just running a
>     virtual machine, it's pretty stable and safe from attack.
>
>     --- eric
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