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hello friends,
i have been really strugling to complete my project for 4 credits,
it is accesible calculator,

i have coded the standard calculator,
now i have decided to give its most importatnt feature that is when any digit is clicked that digit must zoom out on to the whole screen of the mobile phone or form window so that person with the acute vision can also see it properly.

please help me out i have no idea how to do this
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I would suggest voice interface.

You see, general-purpose voice recognition is hard to implement, because of limited quality of the available engine, but this is still possible, maybe with certain percentage of mistakes, especially if the grammar is small — this is not dictation. If the calculator is simple, the required grammar is so small, the the recognition would show pretty good fidelity, if the user's pronunciation is at least clear, even with considerable accent. I experimented well enough with such interfaces, so I can tell it for sure.

And voice synthesis is not a problem at all.

You need to use the assembly "System.Voice.dll". It comes with redistributable .NET package, so it is in the GAC, so you will add the reference from the tab ".NET" of the "Add Reference" dialog. Please see System.Speech:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.speech.recognition.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.speech.synthesis.aspx[^].

You can freely download required language pack from here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/languages[^].

The visually impaired one will only need to activate your application and then use the voice mode only. How about that?

—SA
 
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arpan4net 5-Apr-12 1:16am    
thanks for rep,,
but prob is that i am a beginer , i dont think i will be able to complete this as i have only three days left,,so i am tackling only acute vission, no a 90 % disablity as it is a minor project this idea i will surly apply after this,,

but for now only non voice,
Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Apr-12 2:40am    
I cannot be responsible for your skills, but you already pointed out this idea is not applicable to mobile...
If you did such work (say, for desktop systems, why not?) you could ask further questions when you faced some problems, and I would gladly answered. This is not more difficult then making decent UI (in fact, I know too few people who can make decent UI though :-).
--SA
arpan4net 5-Apr-12 1:18am    
system.speech is not available for mobile apps
Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Apr-12 2:37am    
Oh, too bad. Sorry. I think it would be a good idea otherwise. But maybe your or someone will use it for desktop application, of even for mobile, when such technology becomes available. However, by that time, I hope such applications will be deployed by major vendors...
--SA
Espen Harlinn 5-Apr-12 8:57am    
It seems MS is trying to provide something through BING ... Haven't looked into it though ...
You could use a popup:
Creating a custom popup in Windows Phone 7[^]

Best regards
Espen Harlinn
 
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Abhinav S 9-Apr-12 3:40am    
Good link. 5.
Espen Harlinn 9-Apr-12 5:45am    
Thank you Abhinav :-D

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