From: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: dectalk express updates
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:32:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090929213241.GA1619@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <860980C8BE064E81B0B56F9CB5AD1DA2@Boe>
Jason,
do you know what the default for [:dv ap xx] is?
Thanks,
William
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 04:50:30PM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote:
> The value for the [:dv ap XXX] is a frequency, in HZ. This is the base pitch
> of the synthesizer. If you set [:dv pr 0] which allows for no pitch range
> (the default is 100) you will get a robotic voice at the frequency the ap
> value has. ap stands for Average Pitch. I think the lowest acceptable value
> is 50 and the highest is somewhere between 500 and 600. No idea about
> incremental adjustments though.
> Jayson
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Hubbs" <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
> To: "speakup mailing list" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:55 PM
> Subject: dectalk express updates
>
>
> > All,
> >
> > I just updated the dectalk express driver based on a manual that Kirk
> > sent to me. The new driver version is 2.17.
> >
> > We were using the wrong value for the volume command: It should be [:dv
> > g5 xx] where xx is between 60 and 86, so I have defined that and set 73
> > as the default.
> >
> > Also, I have set the default rate and the range of rates to match what
> > the manual says, which is: Default rate is 180 and range is from 75 to
> > 650.
> >
> > I am unable to find the documentation for the command we are using to
> > set the pitch, which is [:dv ap xx]. I need to know what the possible
> > values of xx for this command are, and whether you can give relative
> > values like [:dv ap +50] or something similar. Using absolute pitch
> > settings for caps indication makes it so that a user can't set their
> > pitch to anything away from the default value.
> >
> > Any assistance would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > William
> >
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