From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.30]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E4110B17 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 18:20:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so1187463ywe.29 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:19:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:from:to:references :subject:date:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:x-mimeole; bh=u1P4OTzRJ6cD4A1vMEGqq2WQDujGIbFz5v9EEVW/6VI=; b=PWdy8CAc+IXVwAxzm/L4se+9iURZoVZVvSCW6iOe0jNzPF7U6TploU9lOK0rQ19LWu nMTSuNd012Ucy7s3phgZV+9jZp/pUAXurDT3qxiVxcZqckjWchNxzMUot0HCd+hWpKIX 7uV3+toYEVNgx/CvvAqKDaQJ9opkz+wbo4H7o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:from:to:references:subject:date:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority :x-mailer:x-mimeole; b=w3gkmLr8ZZrLdqG1L6M9Kr/DAQjUXHqY+SciPSBS0PrDWxc3ZLP7TR0it17Hi2LdvL rfLni4fj+uY/HHx92Ny3gdYiHMH6hFs9lz6WXrmvZloJL9k/bzm/ZohrpSlnevpht4l9 CQDLgP/LStw7nvEOrMY6Mrc5G0r+/xj7nXSyA= Received: by 10.150.84.41 with SMTP id h41mr3040458ybb.216.1212877197497; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:19:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from golly ( [72.84.42.151]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 34sm7152716yxl.0.2008.06.07.15.19.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:19:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <237F588A29644C02B36EAF0916F9F90C@golly> From: "Nick Stockton" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <1212348828.3140.47.camel@localhost><07B7C8C9E1AC4FB88624E1E27F181150@golly><1212410525.9840.11.camel@localhost> <20080602153910.GA14624@gmx.net><1212437340.2970.2.camel@localhost><446178A687B64FBDAC3208E4946FA00E@golly><1212532560.17617.25.camel@localhost><1212615202.3840.10.camel@localhost><1212780987.3002.7.camel@localhost> <1212875859.2996.15.camel@localhost> Subject: Re: IBMTTS on slackware Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 18:19:47 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3264 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3264 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 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: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:20:02 -0000 I think I described it rong, damn dyslexia *grin*. What I ment is that it sounded sped up sort of like a tape player that is sped up or when you raze the sampling rate of a recording in an audio editor. I think the technical term would be "that alven and the chipmunks sound." *giggle*. It would speak like that for a sec or two then it would stop speaking. This was only when I modified it to use aoss for OSS emulation in alsa. after changing it back to the way it was before it didn't have that problem. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Whapples" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 5:57 PM Subject: Re: IBMTTS on slackware > On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 20:46 -0400, Nick Stockton wrote: >> *nods* I remember trying that but it didn't seem to work. >> it was making the sound start out speaking a few words very fast then it >> would freez and not speak at all. > Speaking fast in gnome-speech might be due to the fact that gnome-speech > seems to be able to reach much higher speeds than speech-dispatcher does > (on my system I need to set speech-dispatcher to full (99) in orca to > achieve what seems nearly fast enough where as whith gnome-speech I am > dropping it down to about 60 (although I may speech it up once I have > tuned it a bit better for pitch and such like)). >> I kind of wonder if it was because I have my USB sound card set to output >> 44,100HZ in /etc/asound.comf and viavoice would be using 22,000HZ. > What was the rate of speech when using gnome-speech's test application > (test-speech)? If this seemed the fairly standard slow default speed > applications normally set then sample rate conversion is probably > occurring. It's quite common for alsa to resample for you, any device > you set up as plug or to use dmix will automatically resample for you. >> When ever I get a faster computer I'll probbely try running gnome-speech >> again but at the momentgnome speech is not very responcive on my computer >> and speech-dispatcher is quite a bit more responcive. >> I kind of wonder what is causing it to spell some words but not others >> though... Very strange. >>>From what I can tell, the following causes speech-dispatcher (when using > orca, when using speechd-up I think I got slightly different results): > If the word contains non-alphabetic characters (eg. > speakup-request@braille.uwo.ca gets some parts spelt) > If something has capitals in the midst of it (eg. java variable names or > method names, although the method names will have non-alphabetic > characters after it)) > > Those above rules probably could be improved upon to be more specific > but it's a starting point. Some words get spelt by gnome-speech, but > this is less frequent and I am still working when this occurs. I don't > remember espeak doing this so much so I don't think it's in the main > speech-dispatcher code just the ibmtts module or ibmtts itself. > > Michael Whapples > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 3156 (20080603) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > >