I have a speakout also, but I had to set /proc/speakup/tone to 12 to get what used to be tone i. But it does work (no longer in a speakout directory of its own). Now all we need is the Vocalize type functionality and an internal key translation and we are there! on Wednesday 04/30/2003 Steve Holmes(steve at holmesgrown.com) wrote > I just want to say what a fine job with the new speakup from CVS dated > 04/29 in the morning hours:) > > The window feature is great; I could use it to read the status line in > mutt and I think the response for reading text is a bit snappier now. > I am using the speakout synth to do all this. > > I did run into a bug or two though...:) > > The tone parameter for speakout doesn't seem to work. The proc/tone > came up as 0 and when I plugged other values into it, it had no > effect. > > Should I go ahead and attempt to resolve this in the spkout module or > is someone else likely to catch this one? > > I won't get a chance to look at it till tonight when I get back home > from work if I persue it. The other bug (I think) is the next two > keys after the Rate keys. Pressing them just beep like the upper and > lower limits on the other keys such as punctuation and rate. I don't > remember what these two keys go to; I'm now at work on a winblows box > so can't verify the exact keys but I think it is the speakup 7 and 8 > keys. > > Finally, The cursor tracking is fantastic! I could scroll up and down > even with scrolling text in emacs and it didn't skip a beat. > > Keep it up, Kirk. If nobody else has stepped up to the plate, I would > be willing to try and describe some of these new features to help > better document Speakup. Just let me know. > -- > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
