[music-dsp] Re: quoting and email with speech

[Johan Boulé]

Hi,
Usally people read much faster than they speak.
So I wonder if your "email speaker" speaks very faster than you can read.
Johan
> Hi.
> 
> I appreciate your posts, and find them valuable.
> 
> This suggestion refers only to single topic replies.
> 
> Those of us who read e-mail with speech want to get to the new information,
> with as little time as possible waisted listening to quotes which we have 
> already heard several times. 
> 
> A fall back strategy is to dump the speech buffer, go to the end of the post, 
> and search back for the last > and listen from there.
> It is easy to dump the speech buffer when the quotes are last, but not possible 
> to scroll to the beginning of the new comments when they follow the quotes.
> 
> When some people are so eager to include everything, that they put their 
> new comments between the quoted stuff and the quoted tag lines and footers,
> even this last resort is defeated.
> 
> I am not against all quoting,
> but it is often much too long or mostly superfluous.
> 
> This is not a personal attack, but a constructive suggestion toward making 
> the list easier reading  and more helpful to all.
> 
> Thanks much for your consideration.
> 
> If you must quote me, please put your comments first.
> 
> I have already listened to mine.
> I read email with speech.
> So it is not possible to scroll past the quotes without listening to them again,
> to quickly get to the new information.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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