Speech-friendly alsa mixer (sam) released, testers needed

[Didier Spaier]

Hello Willem,

sam works on Slint64-14.2.1.2 using any console screen reader. Well, at
least with espeakup, speechd-up and fenrir <smile>.

I still have to test with several sound cards, will do in a qemu VM.

Congrats!

I will package it for Slint as soon as you tell it's ready for release.

Some minor remarks:
1. There is a software called SAM (mind the capital letters):
https://github.com/s-macke/SAM
Isn't there a risk of confusion?
2. in README.md you wrote:
> 3. Alternatively, grab the tar.gz from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/52/b6/44871791929d9d7e11325af0b7be711388dfeeab17147988f044a41a6d83/pyalsaaudio-0.8.4.tar.gz
But there is a SHA256SUM on this page that the reader could miss:
https://pypi.org/project/pyalsaaudio/#files
Maybe it's not accessible though as it's not an hyperlink, the html code for it is the 4 following line:
 <a class="-js-copy-hash table__sha256-link tooltipped tooltipped-s" aria-label="Copy to clipboard" data-original-label="Copy to clipboard" data-clipboard-text="84e8f8da544d7f4bd96479ce4a237600077984d9be1d7f16c1d9a492ecf50085">
                      <i class="fa fa-copy" aria-hidden="true"></i>
                      <span class="sr-only">Copy SHA256 hash</span>
                      SHA256
                    </a>
not sure what to do here...
3. Maybe you could consider porting sam to python3? pyalsaudio can be
built for python3, but TBH that's all I know, I didn't try to use it so.

Best,

Didier

On 10/04/2019 12:14, Willem van der Walt wrote:
> OK, I made the change to use python2 and uploaded again.
> HTH, Willem
> 
> 
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
>> [The e-mail server of the sender could not be verified (SPF Record)]
>>
>> Chuck Hallenbeck, le mer. 10 avril 2019 05:52:15 -0400, a ecrit:
>>> On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>>> Chuck Hallenbeck, le mer. 10 avril 2019 05:33:10 -0400, a ecrit:
>>>>> I am using arch, and had to use pyalsaaudio from the AUR to satisfy the
>>>>> requirements for sam, but on first executing it, I get this:
>>>>>
>>>>> [groucho at workshop ~]$ sam
>>>>>   File "/usr/local/bin/sam", line 152
>>>>>     print ''
>>>>>            ^
>>>>> SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean
>>>>> print('')?
>>>>> [groucho at workshop ~]$
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions? Looks like an interesting idea.
>>>>
>>>> This is a python2 vs python3 issue.
>>>>
>>> Okay, that's helpful. Arch names the different pythons python2 and
>>> python.  Not sure if debian does it that way, or calls them python and
>>> python3. .
>>
>> It's python (for python2) and python3 for now.
>> sam should use python2 explicitly until being compatible with python3
>> (which should probably not be very hard)
>>
>> Samuel
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