Speakup Configurator

Thomas Ward tward at bright.net
Mon Oct 8 12:23:58 EDT 2001


As far as the Dectalk Express goes I remember that Jaws for Dos used a pitch
skale of 1 to 10. This basically, moved the pitch by 10 everytime you moved
up or down.
I think this would work great with Speakup, and I can't wait to see the
updated version of your program.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 11:43 AM
Subject: Speakup Configurator


> I think what I'm gonna do is try and accomodate Speakout and Doubletalk
> first. This will enable me to get the program to save valid parameter
> features and ranges for each synthesiser so that the proper features and
> ranges can be made available automatically depending on which synthesiser
> is currently being used. Once this is accomplished, I should be able to
> add other synthesisers in the future with much less fuss. Right now, I
> hard coded things thinking of one box and well I got painted into a corner
> real fast! Gee, thought my programming skills could have helped me avoid
> that trap:).
>
> One general question I would like to ask of all synthesiser users though,
> What about parameters that allow for a hundred or more choices? I'm
> thinking of a range of 00 to 99 or something like that. With my current
> design, one could end up having to press up or down arrow a hundred times
> to make the complete loop. Would it be necessary to stop at every point or
> would it be acceptable to say, skip every ten values to scale our keyboard
> approach to having ten choices instead of a hundred.
>
> Whad do you all think?
>
>
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