Speech and Notification

I have very much enjoyed Fire 1.0.  Thanks to all the developers for the
most excellent work!

One aspect of the prev version that I miss is the fact that when speaking
Fire said "Message from XXX" and now it says "You have received a message
from XXX" which is a bit verbose.

I would greatly appreciate an option to be able to control what it says,
something like a text box where I can enter

Speak [ From $NAME           ]

And set the speech to whatever I would like.


An option to do the speech only for background windows would be nice too and
still be able to have the "new message" sound ring if the window is
frontmost.  The "Mute the front chat window" checkbox could be both on the
Sound Level (application) tab and the Speech tab of the Sound preference
pane so you could have "Mute Sounds in Front Chat Window" separate from
"Mute Speech in Front Chat Window"

This would be especially handy because then I can tell who is sending me a
message if the window is in the back, and I can still tell that the person I
was last chatting with sent me a message (in a less intrusive way) if the
window is in the front.

As it is, the flashing window notification works well enough but I don't use
the speak notification anymore.  It sure was nice being able to tell who was
sending me a message without looking at my computer or without even being
able to see any of the FIRE windows.

Blessings to you all,

Mike






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