APPENDIX A:

outSPOKEN's COMPONENT FILES

Program Files

The outSPOKEN program files are located in the root directory of the 
outSPOKEN installation disk. If you have installed outSPOKEN to your 
computer's hard disk, these files have been copied to the outSPOKEN 
directory (by default, C:\OSW). Each program file is listed below along with 
its basic function. 

GUIACCES.EXE   The core of outSPOKEN. This is the program which must be 
executed from within Windows to start outSPOKEN.

BSIVKD.386   This is a keyboard driver which outSPOKEN uses instead of the 
standard keyboard driver provided by Windows. 

GUISTART.SCP   This file specifies the filenames of outSPOKEN extensions, 
such as input and output drivers, which are to be linked to outSPOKEN when 
it is started. This is an ASCII file, and can be viewed with a standard text 
editor. Each line in the file is of the form:

   Load xxxxxxxx.dll

where xxxxxxxx is the name of another of outSPOKEN's component files.

PCKBDIN.DLL   This file allows outSPOKEN to accept commands from the PC 
keyboard. It is one of the files loaded in GUISTART.SCP.

SSILOUT.DLL   This file is outSPOKEN's generic connection to the speech 
output drivers, which connect to specific speech synthesizers (listed 
below). This is one of the files loaded in GUISTART.SCP. 

BSISCP.DLL   This file contains outSPOKEN's keyboard commands. This is one of 
the files loaded in GUISTART.SCP. 

KEYHOOK.DLL   This file is part of the keyboard input chain connecting 
BSIVKD.386 to PCKBDIN.DLL.

Dictionary and Preferences Files

All of outSPOKEN's preferences settings (Section 5.1) are stored in 
preferences files in the outSPOKEN directory (by default, C:\OSW). These 
outSPOKEN preferences files are called OSSPEECH.INI and OS.PRF. In addition 
to these preferences files, outSPOKEN maintains all icon definitions in 
files called graphics dictionaries (Section 5.2.3). These dictionaries are 
also kept in the outSPOKEN directory, and have the file extension ".DIC". 



OS.PRF is the file which contains the settings for all of outSPOKEN's 
preferences. This file is an ASCII file, and can be viewed with a standard 
text editor, though we do not recommend using an editor to modify the file. 
Each line of this file contains the name of a particular setting, followed 
by that setting's current value. For more information about the significance 
of these settings, see Sections 5.1.2-5.1.8.

outSPOKEN ships with a number of graphics dictionaries. They can be found in 
the root directory of the outSPOKEN disk. In general, the file name contains 
a hint about the type of icons the dictionary contains. For example, the 
dictionary WIN3BIT.DIC contains names for standard Windows graphics in a 
three bit color scheme (sixteen colors). The outSPOKEN installer copies all 
dictionary files from the program disk to the hard disk. For information on 
the exact filenames of the dictionaries shipped with the current version of 
outSPOKEN, see the README file on the outSPOKEN DISK. 

Speech Synthesizer Driver Files

outSPOKEN uses drivers to communicate with the speech synthesizer to which 
it is connected. Because each synthesizer is slightly different, outSPOKEN 
has a number of different drivers, each tailored to a specific synthesizer 
or group of synthesizers. For 
more information about synthesizer drivers, see the README file. For a 
complete list of currently supported synthesizers, check the README file on 
the outSPOKEN disk.