mute speech #9
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I can understand the need for this for specific commands like scrubbing.
However, if you want a general mute, why not just use your screen
reader's functionality for muting speech? That should give you the same
practical benefit with greater consistency.
While that would, of course, suppress the messages from osara, I need to unmute before I do anything else. Anything saving mear seconds adds up when I'm doing projects with hundreds or even thousands of tiney little edits.
example of a common sequence.
Set ripple mode as needed, mute nvda, turn on numlock so that numpad 4 and 6 can move an item, turn off numlock, unmute speech, continue.
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Sorry, but I'm still not following why a separate command to mute OSARA
would make this any easier. Using your example, you'd still have the
following scenario:
Set ripple mode as needed, mute OSARA, turn on numlock so that numpad 4
and 6 can move an item, turn off numlock, unmute OSARA, continue.
If osara were mutable, as such, no toggling from beeps back to speech
would be necessary, and if the mute speech action were assigned to a
function key, numlock wouldn't matter.
Again, its another time saver.
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jcsteh
commented
Mar 4, 2015
This argument doesn't hold. You can use the no beeps speech mode NVDA add-on and assign toggling of speech to whatever key you like. Implementing this would be akin to asking the developer of every application to provide a key to disable accessibility temporarily for that application, or to use a parallel for sighted users, a key to turn off the GUI temporarily. The correct place for silencing speech is the screen reader.
jcsteh
commented
Sep 28, 2015
I introduced the ability to disable reporting of scrubbing using OSARA's new configuration dialog in 0d64c7b.
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I would like to be able to have a toggle which would allow the disabling of speech from osara. This is useful when I'm scrubbing or doing other edits where speech may not be necessary, or could be a distraction.