From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 20421 invoked from network); 5 Jul 1998 18:31:02 -0000 Received: from mercury.mv.net (root@199.125.85.40) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Jul 1998 18:31:02 -0000 Received: from vanzandt.mv.com (root@vanzandt.mv.com [207.22.8.81]) by mercury.mv.net (8.8.8/mem-971025) with ESMTP id OAA07555 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 14:28:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: by vanzandt.mv.com via sendmail with stdio id (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for blinux-list@redhat.com; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 16:17:22 -0400 (EWT) Message-Id: Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 16:17:22 -0400 (EWT) From: "James R. Van Zandt" To: blinux-list@redhat.com In-reply-to: <199807032243.IAA09479@starburst.intranet.au> (guardian@silas-1.cc.monash.edu.au) Subject: Re: emacspeak accent driver and chaging the speech rate References: <199807032243.IAA09479@starburst.intranet.au> List-Id: Nick - I'm glad to hear somebody is trying out the Accent server, at least. (I don't have an Accent here, but I have worked on speech servers for the Double Talk and BnS.) You can help the debugging by providing a little more information. Most importantly, what device are you using -- an actual Accent, or something that claims Accent compatibility? What model and firmware revision? Also, which version of the speech server software are you using? (Admittedly, I think there has been only one version announced publically.) What version of Emacspeak are you using? I believe the current Accent server works only with Emacspeak 7.0. Then, try changing the speech rate from the command line. The Accent rate command looks like \033RB, where the first part is the octal code for an escape character and the "B" is a code for the desired speed. Legal codes include at least these: 8 9 A B C D E F G H. Assuming you are running bash as your shell, I believe you can send text to your device like this: echo $'this is a test\r' >/dev/ttyS2 You should be able to test the rate commands with something like this: echo $'initial rate speech \033R9 speech with rate set to nine \033RE speech with rate set to echo \033RH speech with rate set to hotel' >/dev/ttyS2 Let us know what happens. Good luck! - Jim Van Zandt >Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 08:43:32 +1000 >From: guardian@silas-1.cc.monash.edu.au > >Hi all >Is anyone else using the accent driver for emacspeak? >I'm having a problem trying to change the speech rate. As far as i can tell from the manual, to change the speech rate in emacspeak, I do ctrl-e d r, then type in a new value. hit enter. and it should change. >I type in the new value, hit enter and the rate doesn't change at all. >am I missing something obvious here? > >thanks in advance for any suggestions. > >Regards Nick