How about generating the caps start and stop on the fly depending what the pitch is at the time and just add a number and issue the command? And maybe indicate that this is what you are doing by something special in those fields so people can change if they want. William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 02:59:50PM -0400, Trevor Astrope wrote: > > William, is it possible to set defaults for caps_start and caps_stop for > > each voice and if the user changes the pitch via the sys file, they would > > also need to change the absolute value in the caps_start and caps_stop > > files as well? > > Trevor, > > the caps_start and caps_stop strings are not just pitch values; they > are actual strings that are sent to the synthesizer. The defaults are > commands that change the pitch, but they could be anything a user wants > them to be. > > What I have found looking over documentation is that relative pitches > are not supported. So, we can't tell the dectalk to raise or lower its > pitch by a certain amount, we are telling it to set its pitch to a > certain value. > > I guess what I'm wondering is, since pitch shifting isn't supported by the > dectalks, I'm not sure that messing with the pitch for caps indication > as the default is a good idea. What do you think? > > William > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
