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[Bart Bunting <bart AT bunting.net.au>]

Hey Robert,
That’s great news! Glad to hear you’re still working on it.
Don’t stress about updating the older server if it will take away from what 
you’re doing on the new one. I’m more than happy to wait.
Also happy to do any testing if that’s helpful to you.
Regards

Bart

> On 30 Aug 2023, at 1:46 am, Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com> wrote:
> 
> It is absolutely alive and kicking, I am actually about 50% done with a 
> complete rewrite which uses a more modern mac sound system allowing a bunch 
> of great improvements and much better long term support from Apple. 
> 
> I  have the code for pitch change in there already and I can go ahead and 
> enable it, but be aware, it sounds somehow "wrong" to me, the shift seems 
> too intense and I have not be able to get to the bottom of it.  
> 
> That along with the crash bug in the heavy use of dynamically created tones 
> are my two annoyances... happens to me often when I am "riding the 
> backspace" key to delete stuff.
> 
> I should put able to put in the pitch change stuff later today, and I got 
> an idea on how to fix the crash on heavy tone generation but since the new 
> server doesn't seem to have that problem, I likely will punt on it. 
> 
> 
>> On Aug 29, 2023, at 11:38, Bart Bunting (via emacspeak Mailing List) 
>> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Robbert et al,
>> 
>> I guess this question is directed to Robert but happy if anyone has any 
>> info.
>> I have been using the swiftMac server on and off for some time. Find it 
>> very responsive. However, there are a few things that are still not quite 
>> up to scratch. The biggest irritation for me is no indication of 
>> capitalisation with pitch change. And in an ideal world, I’d love to have 
>> the caps beeps back but a much more minor issue.
>> There don’t appear to have been any commits to the git repository in some 
>> time. Is there any plan to continue development of this server? 
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> 
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> -- 
> Robert "robertmeta" Melton
>