New features for speakup

Willem van der Walt wvdwalt at csir.co.za
Fri May 6 01:46:22 EDT 2016


This sounds nice.
I like the indentation and multiple cut and paste stuff.
It is good to know that there still are people that spend their own time 
to improve speakup, thanks!
Kind regards, Willem


On Thu, 5 May 2016, David wrote:

> It's been awhile since I contributed nine years!
> I have a David modified version for 4.5.0 kernels which has the following
> added features. Per screen synth variables so Darlene and I don't fight
> over punctuation, rate etc. A variable can be set to multi so each
> console can have its own settings. Also multiple cut and paste buffers.
> One is local, to each console and three global ones like the current cut and
> paste buffer. Also for those of us in software where people like code
> properly indented, a say indent feature which says how far the line is
> indented. Also you can read the contents of any of the paste buffers
> in case you forget what is in them. Also changed rate/pitch variables
> so instead of them being a number, the words per minute or absolute
> pitch values are spoken.  The next thing I am working is to get away from
> requiring an on-board uart and instead, use any serial/usb device
> available in the initial dev-fs. Yes, it will use evil writes to kernel
> space devices and the purests will stone me maybe. But on-board uarts are
> becoming rare and pci-express serial cards ought to be useful.
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