On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 15:33 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > If I type: > espeak "This is a test." > then > spd-say "This is a test." > the second time is much louder than the first, and should not be since > the default volume is supposed to be the same. > Sun Jun 3 15:21:25 2007 [765657]: child: synth command = |echo "This is a test." | espeak -w /tmp/espeak.wav -v en -s 160 -a 200 -p 50 --stdin && aplay /tmp/espeak.wav| > Notice the "-a 200" on the espeak command line above. > Speech-dispatcher is setting the espeak volume to maximum, which is not > what I would expect with those settings. I think your eSpeak settings are correct. Please, what is the DefaultVolume setting in your speechd.conf? I?d expect it is 100 (max), which explains your situation (100 gets mapped to 200). It is not unreasonable to have maximum volume set by default in speechd.conf. Since we miss a proper audio system on GNU/Linux, with the simple audio output through ALSA in Speech Dispatcher, setting DefaultVolume to 0 would mean that for most speech synthesizers the default volume will be very quiet by default comparing to the rest of your system :( So there is this setting to 100 so that users don?t have a problem right from the start. You can allways change it to what you like. I?ll change the default espeak-generic.conf parameters for the new eSpeak range in the next version of speechd. With regards, Hynek Hanke
