dectalk issues

[Adam Myrow]

OK, let's be honest here.  Does anybody actually modify the caps start and 
stop parameters?  I know that I never do.  Most people prefer a pitch 
shift because it takes less time than a spoken message.

As to making it a choice between pitch shifting or a message, I don't see 
how that's any different from what we are doing now, since, if the message 
is in the i18n files, the user could customize it to anything they wanted. 
They could even change it to the strings that are sent now if they felt so 
inclined.

Let me ask another question here.  What exactly happens internally in 
Speakup when you press the various keys to adjust pitch or speed?  For 
example, insert+3 and insert+4 adjust the pitch.  What I hear with the 
Dectalk in these cases is a message like "pitch 104."  The pitch is set to 
that new value before the message is spoken.  I ask, because it seems to 
me that some of the same code could be used to do the pitch shifting 
instead of sending a hard-coded string.