[Rwp] Please read, A suggestion for the next release of Osara, what does the list think?

Jes jessmith at samobile.net
Wed Mar 23 12:55:11 EDT 2016


Although I love Osara and the strides Jamie has made in improving 
access to Reaper, I think Osara could really be improved if users could 
have complete control over what Osara speaks and when it speaks it.
For instance, right now in the Osara configuration, there are only 
three checkboxes - Report fx when moving to tracks, report item 
position when scrubbing, and report the transport state play, record, 
etc. However, I am getting extrainious speech that I could do without, 
such as being told "Selection start, selection end" when hitting 
alt+shift+left and right brackets. While this info may be extremely 
helpful for newbies to Reaper and Osara, I find it a nucence hearing 
that I have started or ended a selection, especially because those keys 
must be deliberately pressed. Also, I would rather not hear the note of 
every single midi note or event as I am arrowing up and down in the 
midi event editor. As a pianist, I can tell what note is what simply by 
listening to it and making the needed changes, without Osara babbling 
at me at the same time I am trying to work. The only way to shut Osara 
up is to mute NVDA's speech completely, then turn it back on when I 
need speech back.
Any ideas on how this could be added? I think it would be better to put 
a nice edit field in the Osara config in case we, the users want to add 
custom entries to make Osara be quiet, rather than having to create a 
checkbox for every single prompt Osara speaks. Less work for Jamie, and 
more flexible for users. Maybe I want to just hear the word, "on, off", 
when I hit control shift M to turn the metronome on or off. I already 
know that I'm dealing with the metronome, I just might want a single 
word telling me its state.
Sorry for such a long email but this issue really, really needs to be 
resolved for the advanced Reaperian. And let's not forget, that 
beginning users will become advanced at some point if they stick with 
Reaper long enough.


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