-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 I now have the latest version of Espeak (1.11) configured to support Rate, Volume, and Pitch from the espeak-generic.conf with Speakup and Speech Dispatcher. Some of you may already be doing this but I thought I'd share my parameters just the same. For speech rate, I use add=180 and multiplier=90. For pitch, I use add=50 and multiplier=50. For volume, I use add=100 and multiplier=100. Note these values are explained inside the generic.conf files for speech dispatcher. I would be curious if anyone else is using same or different values for these. My biggest chalenge was speech rate which I now think I have the range covered (80 Words per min. to about 290 words per min.) I was originally having with low pitches causing seg faults and numeric overflows but I think I have that all fixed now. It would seem that if the parameters passed to espeak are out of range, unpredictable things may happen. Also, I notice in my generic.conf file that speech dispatcher's output is piped via echo to speak and no wav file is collected. The only performance issue I notice is if I used pitch change to denote capital letters. There seems to be a noticable delay before speaking a capital letter. If I change speakup to use "Cap" instead, the delay is not noticed. I think this last bit may also be true with other synths using speech dispatcher though; I've noticed it with Dectalk. Are other espeak users configured similarly? - -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://holmesgrown.ld.net/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE5J6qWSjv55S0LfERA9AwAJ0WTbQC65VPo30ziFhXAyQGMr6NmQCgoLRU FHlRb/24rQdSyUZzTeDg67k= =kXBu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
