Re: [orca-list] Espeak speed up instructions not working

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

HI Storm:

You might also need the latest gnome-speech driver for eSpeak.  The 
gnome-speech driver contained some errors in how it expressed the 
min/max values for rate.

I just tested with Orca from trunk and gnome-speech from trunk on my 
OpenSolaris box.  A maximum rate of 10.0 in Orca seems to match espeak 
-v en-us -s 390 "this is some text" from what I can tell.  In addition, 
the raised pitch for capital letters seems to work well, too.

Can you try saving away your ~/.orca directory, deleting ~/.orca, and 
then rerun the Orca preferences to see if things start working as expected?

Will

Storm Dragon wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using Ubuntu 9.04 with Orca version 2.25.91
> I have rate set to 100, and added the fast_test line to 
> /usr/share/espeak-data/voices/en/en-us but it is not speaking any 
> faster.  If I do espeak -v en-us -s 390 "this is some text" then it does 
> speak as fast as I expect it to.  Is orca's fastest rate not 390 words 
> per minute?  I think it has to use espeak's fastest setting to work.  Is 
> there a file I can edit in Orca to change it?  Also, pitch is not raised 
> for caps letters.
> Thanks
> Storm
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