I think there was a change in espeak and the way rules for numbers are done in version 1.14. May be there is a problem with more than one point in a number with the new method? From Michael Whapples ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 6:24 AM Subject: Re: A minor change to espeak-generic.conf > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Is it just me, or has anyone else running 1.14 noticed a slight bug, > where for example "linux-2.6.18" is simply spoken as "linux-2.6"? I > haven't tested this with espeak alone, but I believe it to be a bug in > espeak, rather then in speech-dispatcher/speechd-up, because I didn't > see that when running espeak 1.11, before upgrading to 1.4. BTW, the > ".18" isn't the problem here, it does the same thing with saying linux > 2.6.17.4 for example. > > Greg > > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:16:25PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: RIPEMD160 >> >> I thought it was up to 1.14 Has he done some more versions already? >> >> Also, I just looked at my espeak.generic.conf and I am using aplay to >> play the temp file. It has been working fine here. Now I do have the >> OSS emulation include in my alsa stuff if that makes any difference but >> it is definitely aplay and not play. The only complaint I notice so far >> is the capital letters which for me is raise of pitch; there is a slight >> delay but on this machine I don't see as much delay as I do on my >> laptop. I forget what I have different on this box but I'll take a look >> later. I haven't upgraded to 1.14 yet. I'm still on 1.11 but plan to >> upgrade soon. That's why I was asking about the correct version number. >> >> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:52:55PM -0400, Lorenzo Taylor wrote: >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> > I have found that making a minor change to espeak-generic.conf works >> > better with espeak version 1.16 and also keeps espeak from having to >> > create a temp file. Note that this is only tested with espeak 1.16, so >> > may not work on earlier versions, but definitely test. >> > >> > There is a line in espeak-generic.conf that says something like >> > >> > "echo \"$DATA\" | speak -v $VOICE -s $RATE -a $VOLUME -p >> > $PITCH --stdin -w /tmp/speak.wav | aplay /tmp/speak.wav" >> > >> > I have changed my espeak-generic.conf to say: >> > >> > "echo \"$DATA\" | speak -v $VOICE -s $RATE -a $VOLUME -p >> > $PITCH --stdin --stdout |play -t wav -" >> > >> > Sorry, but I haven't gotten it to work with aplay yet. >> > >> > Not only does this get rid of the temp file, but performance of espeak >> > 1.16 is greatly improved, since there seems to be some sort of slowdown >> > compaired with previous versions of espeak when writing to the temp >> > file. Using the temp file method, I was getting strange problems like >> > the first part of the speech being the same as what was previously >> > spoken followed by a switch in the middle to the end of what was >> > supposed to be newly spoken. The stdout method fixes this. >> > >> > Hth someone, >> > Lorenzo >> >> - -- >> HolmesGrown Solutions >> The best solutions for the best price! >> http://holmesgrown.ld.net/ >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iD8DBQFFIzWSWSjv55S0LfERA+BuAJ9z92F+UIFkkIwB2Xf6x46x8r/CwACfQ6An >> QtOr42UgTHNWsqLlb2pbRz0= >> =EubM >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFFI0Wm7s9z/XlyUyARAq0yAKCnNOimtSNiOKJwqZqZKxPnlV2F+wCghye1 > 0vnj5/RaLB5D1F2NBAJvj4k= > =Hk/2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >
