I think I described it rong, damn dyslexia *grin*. What I ment is that it sounded sped up sort of like a tape player that is sped up or when you raze the sampling rate of a recording in an audio editor. I think the technical term would be "that alven and the chipmunks sound." *giggle*. It would speak like that for a sec or two then it would stop speaking. This was only when I modified it to use aoss for OSS emulation in alsa. after changing it back to the way it was before it didn't have that problem. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples@xxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 5:57 PM Subject: Re: IBMTTS on slackware > On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 20:46 -0400, Nick Stockton wrote: >> *nods* I remember trying that but it didn't seem to work. >> it was making the sound start out speaking a few words very fast then it >> would freez and not speak at all. > Speaking fast in gnome-speech might be due to the fact that gnome-speech > seems to be able to reach much higher speeds than speech-dispatcher does > (on my system I need to set speech-dispatcher to full (99) in orca to > achieve what seems nearly fast enough where as whith gnome-speech I am > dropping it down to about 60 (although I may speech it up once I have > tuned it a bit better for pitch and such like)). >> I kind of wonder if it was because I have my USB sound card set to output >> 44,100HZ in /etc/asound.comf and viavoice would be using 22,000HZ. > What was the rate of speech when using gnome-speech's test application > (test-speech)? If this seemed the fairly standard slow default speed > applications normally set then sample rate conversion is probably > occurring. It's quite common for alsa to resample for you, any device > you set up as plug or to use dmix will automatically resample for you. >> When ever I get a faster computer I'll probbely try running gnome-speech >> again but at the momentgnome speech is not very responcive on my computer >> and speech-dispatcher is quite a bit more responcive. >> I kind of wonder what is causing it to spell some words but not others >> though... Very strange. >>From what I can tell, the following causes speech-dispatcher (when using > orca, when using speechd-up I think I got slightly different results): > If the word contains non-alphabetic characters (eg. > speakup-request at braille.uwo.ca gets some parts spelt) > If something has capitals in the midst of it (eg. java variable names or > method names, although the method names will have non-alphabetic > characters after it)) > > Those above rules probably could be improved upon to be more specific > but it's a starting point. Some words get spelt by gnome-speech, but > this is less frequent and I am still working when this occurs. I don't > remember espeak doing this so much so I don't think it's in the main > speech-dispatcher code just the ibmtts module or ibmtts itself. > > Michael Whapples > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 3156 (20080603) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > >
