Emacspeak discussion list

[Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>]

Pitch shift should work on caps, I will confirm it.  

The automatically turning off, I will look at the mac server for how they do 
that in python, I simply have my voiceover automatically turn off for emacs, 
having it naturally turn off would be much better. 

The punctuation work perfect for me, read out dash dash.  

> On Jan 6, 2024, at 18:28, John Covici <covici AT ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, I installed successfully, a few questions./problems remain.
> 
> I was hoping for capitalization to be available, by pitch changes, am
> I mistaken?  Also, voiceover is on in the emacspeak window -- isn't it
> supposed to be off in that window only automatically?  I am pretty
> sure it works that way with the default serverr.  I will also have to
> see if I am doing something wrong with my punctuation settings,
> when I was trying to reply to your email, I was not hearing any
> dashes  in a line like the following:
> --text follows this line--
> 
> Otherwise, seems pretty good, I am even getting sounds!!
> 
> Thanks for all yyour hard work.
> 
> On Wed, 03 Jan 2024 14:29:14 -0500,
> Robert Melton wrote:
>> 
>> I meant to type restart, not resetr. 
>> 
>> Also, you will have to set swiftmac as you dtk-program 
>> 
>>  (setq dtk-program "swiftmac")
>> 
>> or however you set yours. 
>> 
>>> On Jan 3, 2024, at 13:38, John Covici <covici AT ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> OK, thanks -- what do you mean by "reset emacs"?
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 03 Jan 2024 13:09:49 -0500,
>>> Robert Melton (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> [1  <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>]
>>>> It is in the current emacspeak git version, so will go out with next 
>>>> major release.
>>>> 
>>>> If you don't want to wait, or want a more cutting edge version then use:
>>>> 
>>>> https://github.com/robertmeta/swiftmac
>>>> 
>>>> after you get it just "make install" to build and install from the root 
>>>> directory, then reset emacs.
>>>> 
>>>> README.md and some project aspects will undergo rapid change in the next 
>>>> few days, as it now has shifted purpose a bit. 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 3, 2024, at 12:52, John Covici <covici AT ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> So, where do I get this serverr exactly and what version of emacs and
>>>>> emacspeak are required?  I do have xcode here, so is that what is
>>>>> needed to compile this?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, 03 Jan 2024 10:59:43 -0500,
>>>>> Robert Melton (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> [1  <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>]
>>>>>> Hey swiftmac users! 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I contributed swiftmac to emacspeak proper at the last possible moment 
>>>>>> of 2023, because I wanted to do it last year. :) 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That said, I heard your feedback and while T.V. has been awesome 
>>>>>> enough to just accept my patches as long as as I stay to my Swiftmac 
>>>>>> subtree (thanks again!)... I understand that you want to continue 
>>>>>> using stable releases of Emacspeak!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> So, I am tweaking my Swiftmac repo to be the cutting edge version, and 
>>>>>> place to track bug reports.  When it hits nice stable points or 
>>>>>> critical bug fixes I will be pushing those up to emacspeak. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Still puzzling out the best way to accomplish this, but for now I will 
>>>>>> just make the changes to emacspeak by hand when the code gets to a 
>>>>>> point I think it should be moved over. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Bugs still exist, report them at 
>>>>>> https://github.com/robertmeta/swiftmac/issues
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I will still be creating fat-binaries from time to time to support the 
>>>>>> users who can not run swift to build the project.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Version 2, the rewrite using the newer mac audio subsystem will be up 
>>>>>> around the end of the month under the v2 branch, but it is likely not 
>>>>>> going to be easy to use day to day unless you want to contribute and 
>>>>>> know swift.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks everyone for the support. 
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>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
>>>>> How do
>>>>> you spend it?
>>>>> 
>>>>>       John Covici wb2una
>>>>>       covici AT ccs.covici.com
>>>> 
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>>> you spend it?
>>> 
>>>        John Covici wb2una
>>>        covici AT ccs.covici.com
>> 
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
> 
>         John Covici wb2una
>         covici AT ccs.covici.com