TalkBack 1.6 was programmed using Visual C++ ver 8.0 and relies heavily on the ATL and WTL libraries as well as several Boost classes one of which being the regular expressions library. Data storage is done using the SQLite embedded DataBase engine. The plugin utilizes the Microsoft™ SAPI 5.1 Text-To-Speech engine.

The TalkBack plugin consists of two parts.

1. The main processing engine that does all the real time text processing and feeds it to the TTS engine.


2. The settings manager and list compiler, which exists as a separte plugin to the TalkBack main plugin. This allows the settings dialog and compiler to be loaded and unloaded as necessary to save memory.

The plugin will create five files.

1. TalkBack.xml : stores the plugin settings
2. Jargon.cdx : stores the jargon dictionary
3. Replace.cdx : stores the replacement dictionary
4. TalkBackEvents.db : stores the events settings
5. TalkBackContacts.db : stores the contact settings

All five files will be stored under your user directory in Trillian, most likely c:\program files\trillian\users\default or instead of default; the current profile you are using.

The cdx files are simple text files where each line is three values separated by a tab.