CVS Speakup Observations

[John covici]

I have a speakout also, but I had to set /proc/speakup/tone to 12 to
get what used to be tone i.  But it does work (no longer in a
speakout directory of its own).

Now all we need is the Vocalize type functionality and an internal
key translation and we are there!

on Wednesday 04/30/2003 Steve Holmes(steve at holmesgrown.com) wrote
 > I just want to say what a fine job with the new speakup from CVS dated
 > 04/29 in the morning hours:)
 > 
 > The window feature is great; I could use it to read the status line in
 > mutt and I think the response for reading text is a bit snappier now.
 > I am using the speakout synth to do all this.
 > 
 > I did run into a bug or two though...:)
 > 
 > The tone parameter for speakout doesn't seem to work.  The proc/tone
 > came up as 0 and when I plugged other values into it, it had no
 > effect.
 > 
 > Should I go ahead and attempt to resolve this in the spkout module or
 > is someone else likely to catch this one?
 > 
 > I won't get a chance to look at it till tonight when I get back home
 > from work if I persue it.  The other bug (I think) is the next two
 > keys after the Rate keys.  Pressing them just beep like the upper and
 > lower limits on the other keys such as punctuation and rate.  I don't
 > remember what these two keys go to; I'm now at work on a winblows box
 > so can't verify the exact keys but I think it is the speakup 7 and 8
 > keys.
 > 
 > Finally, The cursor tracking is fantastic! I could scroll up and down
 > even with scrolling text in emacs and it didn't skip a beat.
 > 
 > Keep it up, Kirk.  If nobody else has stepped up to the plate, I would
 > be willing to try and describe some of these new features to help
 > better document Speakup.  Just let me know.
 > -- 
 > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
 >    See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
 > 
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         John Covici
         covici at ccs.covici.com