quote capital letter quote with via voice grml and speakup

quote capital letter quote with via voice grml and speakup

[David Sexton]

Software synth: IBM TTS voxin
problem: when reading letter-by-letter capital letters are said in a squeaky voice with quotes around them for example capitla a would be said as quote a quote
or sometimes multiple quotes quote quote a quote quote
David

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Re: quote capital letter quote with via voice grml and speakup

[Chris Brannon]

David Sexton wrote:
> problem: when reading letter-by-letter capital letters are said in a squeaky 
> voice with quotes around them for example capitla a would be said as quote a 
> quote

Hello,
As for the squeaky voice, the pitch shift is probably too high for
IBM TTS.  Maybe you should change it from 3 to 2 or 1.
It seems that you are using Speakup 3.0.3, which didn't strip
off the quotes around the caps_start and caps_stop strings.
When you load them with speakupconf, Speakup isn't removing the enclosing
quotes that it added when they were saved.
Try running these two commands:

echo -n '\x01+2p' > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/caps_start
echo -n '\x01-2p' > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/caps_stop

You might want to put these in a shell script.  Call it after you
load your settings with speakupconf.

Hope this helps,
-- Chris

Re: quote capital letter quote with via voice grml and speakup

[David Sexton]

I am running speakup 3.1.1 so I could do this in /sys/accessibility/speakup/soft, no?
also, I've forgotten the command to upgrade my kernel modules to the latest speakup
m-a a-i speakup or some such
* Chris Brannon <cmbrannon@cox.net> [090729 03:45]:
> David Sexton wrote:
> > problem: when reading letter-by-letter capital letters are said in a squeaky 
> > voice with quotes around them for example capitla a would be said as quote a 
> > quote
> 
> Hello,
> As for the squeaky voice, the pitch shift is probably too high for
> IBM TTS.  Maybe you should change it from 3 to 2 or 1.
> It seems that you are using Speakup 3.0.3, which didn't strip
> off the quotes around the caps_start and caps_stop strings.
> When you load them with speakupconf, Speakup isn't removing the enclosing
> quotes that it added when they were saved.
> Try running these two commands:
> 
> echo -n '\x01+2p' > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/caps_start
> echo -n '\x01-2p' > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/caps_stop
> 
> You might want to put these in a shell script.  Call it after you
> load your settings with speakupconf.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> -- Chris
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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Re: quote capital letter quote with via voice grml and speakup

[David Sexton]

Super, that worked

* Chris Brannon <cmbrannon@cox.net> [090729 03:45]:
> David Sexton wrote:
> > problem: when reading letter-by-letter capital letters are said in a squeaky 
> > voice with quotes around them for example capitla a would be said as quote a 
> > quote
> 
> Hello,
> As for the squeaky voice, the pitch shift is probably too high for
> IBM TTS.  Maybe you should change it from 3 to 2 or 1.
> It seems that you are using Speakup 3.0.3, which didn't strip
> off the quotes around the caps_start and caps_stop strings.
> When you load them with speakupconf, Speakup isn't removing the enclosing
> quotes that it added when they were saved.
> Try running these two commands:
> 
> echo -n '\x01+2p' > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/caps_start
> echo -n '\x01-2p' > /sys/module/speakup/parameters/caps_stop
> 
> You might want to put these in a shell script.  Call it after you
> load your settings with speakupconf.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> -- Chris
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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