On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Morten Sorvig <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 4 Nov 2016, at 09:53, Robert Iakobashvili <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Morten Sorvig <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> People cannot dictate to Qt-software at Mac as filed: > >>> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-56811 > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I see two possible ways to solve this: > >> > >> 1) Add cross-platform speech-to-text capabilities to Qt’s text input > classes. > >> This would be implemented using native API such as NSSpeechRecognizer, > or an > >> open source speech recognition library bundled with Qt. The behavior we > get from > >> this option may not be exactly native. > >> > >> 2) Use NSTextField in Qt applications. This gives us the exact native > behavior, > >> for speech recognition and everything else, including future NSTextEdit > features. > >> However, NSTextEdit would integrate on the QWindow level, and not for > example > >> as a Qt Quick scene graph item. > >> > >> Neither of these are straightforward, which is one reason why the bug > remains > >> open. > > > > Users are wondering why Qt-applications at Mac are not behaving like > others. > > They are expecting to be the same as TextEdit, Pages, Word, Safari, > Firefox. > > Qt text edit support is more like the Google Docs editor in this regard; a > custom > implementation that may not support all native features. But I do agree > that > users are right in expecting that this should work. > > Morten Right. Most users of dictation are people with learning or motoric disabilities. When these users are used to a certain pattern of platform-specific habits working for them, any other options to do the same could be seen as usability issues breaking these habits. Kind regards, Robert
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