From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: blinux-list at redhat.com (Linux for blind general discussion) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 16:51:49 +0100 Subject: Remaining DecTalk Issues in Speakup? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: List-Id: Howdy Chime , > While Fenrir has many more options, I have not heard of it support > DecTalk? fenrir supports dectalk using emacspeak speech back-end. this is currently very experimental lacking testers or users. it requres - emacspeak somewhere on hard disc - python-pexpect - tcl / tclsh - set speech driver to "emacspeakDriver" - set? speech serverPath in your settings.conf for emacspeak to your TTS server to use: serverPath=/home/chrys/Projekte/emacspeak/servers/espeak is what i used for test it with espeak. again, its still very untested ( i don?t own most of the devices listed for emacspeak) and experimental to maybe not break an existing setup. you can test it by passing the settings? wit -o parameter at startup once sudo fenrir -o "speech#driver=emacspeakDriver;speech#serverPath=/path/to/your/emacspeak/server" or create an copy of the settings.conf, change the required parameters and use sudo fenrir -s /path/to/your/copy/of/fenrir/settings.conf to use an given setting file. if wit works, awesome :). if not, let me know. maybe we can fix it. good luck. cheers chrys Am 01.02.22 um 16:28 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion: > Hi All: Several days ago I asked something similar in the Speakup > list, but I guess maybe this may be a great place to inquire? Last > Thursday evening I had to restart my Debian machine after 130days. > Kernel jumped from 5.10 to 5.15 03. First thing I noticed was a > 4second delay in the DecTalk was back until I ajusted flush-time to > 100. I think back last September I was able to set this at 10, much > easier to scroll-and-listen to content. Please consider allowing a 10 > setting. Next, I bet this involves caps-start-and-stop? If I type or > read any capital letter, the next item will say a "p" on top of what > ever that symbol or even a space. So as an example, a capital i > followed by a space will say "i p space" This is `extremely > challenging to read charactor-by-charactor. I looked-and- caps-start > is set at 160-and-stop is 100. Sure pitch rises on capitals but its > these extra p's which are in my way. Next, now once again > insert2-and-3 for pitch are broken. And eventually I will create an > audio file to send Samuel to demonstrate that just out of the blue, > while reading/scrolling, volume, rate, and pitch drop suddenly. These > have been occurring ever since 2003 when the DecTalk drivers joined > Speakup. Is Speakup an only console screen-reader with DecTalk > support? While Fenrir has many more options, I have not heard of it > support DecTalk? > And lastly on another topic, did something change involving ssh, as > now if we enable openssh server, any1 can login to my system without > any authentication. Obviously until we find out how to fix this, its > turned off, but maybe since last September Debian may have changed > something. I would very much appreciate suggestions on all of these > items. Thanks so much in advance. > Chime > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list at redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >