From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta11.adelphia.net ([68.168.78.205]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HvCUm-0004Ll-00 for ; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:21:16 -0400 Received: from linux1.home ([76.186.253.101]) by mta11.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20070604132045.OBNP13315.mta11.adelphia.net@linux1.home> for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 09:20:45 -0400 Received: by linux1.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B98108141; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 08:20:44 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 08:20:44 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: speech-dispatcher rate and volume settings for espeak 1.25 Message-ID: <20070604132044.GA9116@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20070603192455.GA24783@linux1> <20070603200959.GA21564@ubuntu> <20070603203358.GA25457@linux1> <1180957010.9837.15.camel@labts16.troja.mff.cuni.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1180957010.9837.15.camel@labts16.troja.mff.cuni.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:21:16 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 01:36:49PM +0200, Hynek Hanke wrote: > On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 15:33 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: > > If I type: > > espeak "This is a test." > > then > > spd-say "This is a test." > > the second time is much louder than the first, and should not be since > > the default volume is supposed to be the same. > > Sun Jun 3 15:21:25 2007 [765657]: child: synth command = |echo "This is a test." | espeak -w /tmp/espeak.wav -v en -s 160 -a 200 -p 50 --stdin && aplay /tmp/espeak.wav| > > Notice the "-a 200" on the espeak command line above. > > Speech-dispatcher is setting the espeak volume to maximum, which is not > > what I would expect with those settings. > > I think your eSpeak settings are correct. Please, what is the > DefaultVolume setting in your speechd.conf? I?d expect it is 100 (max), > which explains your situation (100 gets mapped to 200). Hello Hynek, Yes, that is the setting in speechd.conf. I'll take a look at this again. Thanks much for the information. - -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead williamh@gentoo.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGZBGsblQW9DDEZTgRAqREAKCmy5d9g6MqzrSEGgbhV6BPIZNyaQCfcgit P7pq7UthBD4fa5F28h9ZJnY= =VQGq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----