[audacity4blind] A use for the mouse?
- From: "Gary Campbell" <campg2003@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:24:17 -0600
Every system has one, it would be nice to find a use for it! (Oh yeah,
sighted people are totally infatuated with the thing, but I mean for blind
people :-).) I have a couple of ideas. It could be used to very the level
or balance in real time.
Could it work with an add-on of some kind to allow auditory inspection of
the wave display? Maybe to generate a tone that would represent the value
displayed at the position of the mouse. The mouse would have either to be
restricted to the display area, or act as if it were with this add-on.
Could it be used to allow you to drag the cursor position with audio
feedback? Imagine a reel-to-reel deck, or a turntable. Imagine you could
move the tape by hand and hear it move across the head.
As far as that goes, would it be possible to have a mode where you would
hear audio you moved over as you pressed the arrow keys? I have used a
program called MP3 Direct Cut. I like its interface, at least as far as
playback and the cursor, with the appropriate JAWS scripting. The main
thing I like about it is that when you press SPACE to stop it, the cursor
stays where it is when it stops. I think there are also advantages to the
way Audacity does it-- when you stop, the cursor is where it was when you
started playing. The shift+a key provides the suggested behavior, but I
like the spacebar because it's easy to hit. I might could reassign SPACE to
this command but I haven't thought through the ramifications of this.
Is an Audacity plugin able to work with the mouse?
Any ideas? Does anyone know of this being done anywhere?
Gary
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