This delay that is being noticed when pitch shifting for capitals seems to be solved for me by using espeak to output to a wav file and then getting aplay to play that back. From Michael Whapples ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:28 PM Subject: Re: Speech Dispatcher plus Espeak > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > As for the capital letter situation, I have put the -k1 option in my > espeak-generic.conf file and simply wrote a space to > /proc/speakup/caps_start and /proc/speakup/caps_stop. I personally find > the clicks to be not too annoying and it sure beats "cap" at the > beginning of every letter which produces the same delay before the > letter is actually spoken as the delay that speech-dispatcher produces > using the default pitch increment that speakup sends. > > Hope this helps at least somebody, > Lorenzo > - -- > You have a reputation for being thoroughly reliable and trustworthy. > A pity that it's totally undeserved. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFE5O2gG9IpekrhBfIRAmlnAJ96VHawYQr4b8PpGxFEX5FGpqjnPACdGESr > IICPnihVHNOjDxyGZy0jul0= > =Jh54 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >