*very* preliminary documentation for speakup v-2.0

Charles Crawford CCrawford at ACB.org
Sat May 10 15:05:24 EDT 2003


This is very good.  Any idea when the release will be stable?

-- charlie.
At 11:54 AM 5/10/03 -0500, you wrote:
>What's new in v-2.0?  Speakup now tracks the cursor properly in many
>editors and programs.  Synthesizer drivers have been modularized and it
>is now posible to change synthesizers without rebooting by echoing the
>synthesizer abbreviation to /proc/speakup/synth_name.  Several new
>keystrokes have been added.  The speakup key with 1 and 2 on the number
>row decrease and increase the level of punctuation to be spoken (0=none
>1=some 2=most 3=all). The speakup key with 3 and 4 from the number row
>decrease and increase the punctuation level used when reviewing the
>screen with speakup's review cursor.  Use speakup+5 and speakup+6 to
>decrease and increase the speech rate and finally speakup+7 and
>speakup+8 to change voices on your synthesizer.  There is now support
>for a window which can be set using speakup+f1 at the top left and
>bottum right of the area.  Speakup+f2 clears this window and speakup+f3
>toggles it between silent and normal.  Speakup+f4 says the contents of
>the currently defined window.  Speakup+f5 and speakup+f6 allow you to
>choose what punctuation will be spoken in some and most punctuation
>levels.  After pressing either of these pressing any character will add
>or remove it from that set of punctuation.  You will hear speakup say
>the character you have entered followed by on or off.  Press the
>character again to toggle it.  Speakup+f7 adds and removes characters
>from speakup's delimeters list.  These are characters that act like word
>boundaries when reading.  They are set the same as the punctuation
>levels.  Finally speakup+f8 adds or removes characters from speakups
>repeat list.  If a character is turned on speakup will tell you how many
>times it occurs, but if it is off speakup will say the character the
>first three times and that is all.  Setting the contents of this list is
>the same as above.  Lastly speakup+pageup and speakup+pagedown (on the
>six pack) move the speakup review cursor to the beginning and end of the
>text on the current line respectively.  This is useful for using the cut
>and paste feature and it replaces the ctrl+keypad1 move to end command.
>
>Please help me fill in and correct this if you find errors. Speakup is
>under ongoing development right now, meaning Kirk is off squashing bugs
>as I write this, so everything is subject to change.
>
>--
>Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more
>carefully than others.
>Thomas Stivers  e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org     gpg: 45CBBABD
>
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