Monthly Archives: November 2010

French Delphi Speech Session Downloadable

The zip of my CodeWay 4 session (in French) is now available for download here. FYI, the old CodeRage 4 session (in English) is also available from Embarcadero: “Speech Enabling Delphi Applications (zip)”

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FieldByName, FindField: too convenient to be honest

I don’t know about you, but I can’t count anymore the number of times I’ve seen this code pattern (in code snippets online as well as in production code): while not ADataSet.Eof do begin […] ADataSet.FieldByName(‘MyFieldName1’).SomePropertyOrMethod; ADataSet.FieldByName(‘MyFieldName2’).SomePropertyOrMethod; […] ADataSet.Next; end; … Continue reading

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French Delphi Speech Session Material

A big thanks to all who attended my session on Delphi Speech at CodeWay 4, the French online conference. As promised, I have uploaded the material used for the session:

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My Delphi Speech Session in French

… is almost now. The agenda for CodeWay 4 has it at 17:00 Paris time. That’s 8am here in San Francisco and 11am in Quebec and on the East Coast. Here’s the menu: •Vue d’ensemble •Synthese •Dictee •Contrôle •RichEdit 4.1 … Continue reading

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Microsoft Speech Server 10.2 better than 10.1

As I indicated in this previous post, if you want Text-To-Speech in another language than English, you have to install Microsoft Speech Server. And I gave the link to install the v10.1 I had installed and planned to use for … Continue reading

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Early (!) Developer Solutions Conference Announcement

In the conference series, I just received a Facebook link for the coming Developer Solutions Conference in Las Vegas. They offer an early bird discount if you register before Nov 30. And the conference is in February. Now that’s surely … Continue reading

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French Online Conference Next Week

As I announced it here, the 4th edition of CodeWay, the French Conference is taking place next week (Nov 22-26). You can get more information and register on http://embarcadero.arrowecs.fr/codeway4.php (page in French). I’m doing a session on Speech technology (Text-To-Speech and … Continue reading

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Speech, but not in English

As many of you know, it is easy enough to add Text-to-Speech (TTS) or Speech Recognition (SR) to a Delphi application on Vista or Windows 7. Microsoft SAPI 5.x is pre-installed with the OS. (See my CodeRage 4 session (zip) … Continue reading

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RichEdit On Scrolling Strike

We have an application that displays information in a scrolling RichEdit control, always displaying the latest, i.e. the bottom lines. For this purpose we add new lines at the bottom, place the SelStart at the end, to move the caret … Continue reading

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Delphi Blogs Readers

It’s always interesting to know where the Delphi developers are and if there are areas with high concentrations compared to some “desertic” ones. I don’t have access to Embarcadero’s propretary market information, but I have something which also interests me … Continue reading

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