Samuel,
Since you removed the explanation about inflection, I hope you realize its
importance to the function of any quality screen reader...it is after
all what helps humans sound more human in the first place.
The idea of leaving important aspects like rate pitch and inflection
configuration specifics to the
synthesizer, translates into inconsistent speakup performance. From what
you say, the quality will depend on the synthesizer not the screen reader
program. That, speaking personally, is a mistake. End users should
expect the same quality of critical aspects, and yes the ability to fine tune
how fast how clear and how human what your using is, sits firmly in the
critical dictionary, from their screen reader, regardless of
synthesizers. Of course individuals are
going to fine tune those factors, why ever would they not? Such
preferences vary from person to person, its part of why there are so many hardware
synthesizers in the first place, and why software speech is considered of
such poor
quality for many, when both compared to those tools and the human voice.
As for users of speekup updating the files, that would require a uniform
experience, which as you seem to illustrate here is beyond what a user
should expect to fine.
My comments may seem harsh to you, but the ability to use Linux in a
fluid fashion for some is only as good as the screen reader, and those
doing the work, even if volunteers, must respect as much.
Its apart of quality control.
Just my opinion ,
Karen
On Fri, 17 Apr 2020, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Hello,
Karen Lewellen wrote:
there*must* be something uniform that allows caps [...] etc., available for
*the user* to set and have those remain constant, not to change at the
whims of speakup.
That is *exactly* what I am talking about. Using speakupconf to
configure things nicely, and not having to do obscure echo to an obscure
/sys file.
Karen Lewellen wrote:
If speakup lacks the option after being around for so long,
It doesn't lack it, it lets the synthesizer manage it. What is discussed
here is about tuning it, which I haven't heared being asked for before.
Karen Lewellen wrote:
if that is not happening, you have problems.
Please avoid directing such kind of sentence at people who are actually
trying to find time to work on stuff, I don't see how that can be
helping in any way.
Karen Lewellen wrote:
there should be guides both for Linux itself and speakup outside of
the operating system,
There is a speakup guide on http://linux-speakup.org/spkguide.txt
of course it should be getting updated etc. somebody has to do it.
It just can not be me, since I'm not even remotely a user of speakup,
it'd be way simpler if it was real users who would work on it.
Samuel
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