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.
