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

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi Didier,
I am glad to here it works with Slint.
About the name:
I just had to call it something, I am open to suggestions for a better 
name.
First it was console_mixer_alsa, but that was long and not too 
descriptive.
Hopefully, most people would not need to install using the tar file, but 
perhaps I were too precise.
https://pypi.org/project/pyalsaaudio/#files is likely enough.
I am used to python2, but I suppose I should look into changing the code 
so that it can work on both.
If there is enough interest in the program I will make time to do it.

I will see what the feedback is and let you know, but you are welcome to 
package whenever you want.
Kind regards, Willem


On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, Didier Spaier wrote:

> [The e-mail server of the sender could not be verified (SPF Record)]
>
> 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)]
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>>> 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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